Any mass murder or attempted mass murder is a terrible thing in and of itself. What I’d like to be able to do is process what happened for a bit, get all of the details, and then have rational conversations about it.
Unfortunately, that can’t happen. It can’t because there are too many people who are way too invested in pushing a particular narrative.
People like March For Our Lives, which is struggling for relevancy lately.
With the FSU shooting, and the fact that some of the people on campus and in the vicinity that day were Parkland survivors, they think they’ve found that relevancy and are trying to make demands of Gov. Ron DeSantis, among others.
Less than two weeks after a mass shooting rocked the campus of Florida State University, WPTV is still listening to the concerns of students calling for change.
March for Our Lives is a student-led organization formed after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School. The group, along with 28 students who found themselves experiencing both Marjory Stoneman Douglass and Florida State University mass shootings, are sending Governor Ron DeSantis a letterasking him to rethink his stance on lowering the age to buy firearms in Florida.
As it stands, a person must be 21 years old to buy a gun in the Sunshine State under the Public Safety Act signed by Rick Scott. House Bill 759proposes to reduce the age to buy firearms to 18, reversing the post-Parkland high school shooting reform law. At the end of March, the House of Representatives passed the bill in a 78-34 vote.
“We together, wanted to call (DeSantis) out and say, we have survived this two times now in school, and this is unacceptable, and we’re not going away,” Executive Director and Co-founder of March for Our Lives, Jaclyn Corin, said. “We are talking about safe storage. We’re talking about rejecting campus carry, as I know that’s a rising conversation. We’re talking about increased mental health interventions on college campuses. We’re talking about reinstating a Federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention. So all of these things together will collectively save lives.”
At least it’s good to see that they’re still spouting nonsense as “gunsense.”
I’ve already talked about age restrictions in Florida today, so I won’t rehash that one.
First, mandatory storage laws are only designed to keep guns out of kids’ hands and maybe make it harder for criminals to steal the guns, not adults who live in the home and would legitimately warrant access to the firearm in question.
Had campus carry been in effect, someone at FSU might have saved a couple of lives and prevented injuries. The bad guy might be dead right now, but that’s a trade anyone should be willing to make.
Mental health interventions on campuses might be a pill worth swallowing, but it should be remembered that the alleged shooter wasn’t an FSU student. He went to another college nearby, one that lacks the kind of resources FSU would have. I’m not convinced it would have stopped the incident, but I can’t say it would be a terrible thing.
Reconstituting the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, though, may be the dumbest thing Corin called for.
The OGVP didn’t do anything except disseminate reports and push an anti-gun agenda on behalf of an anti-gun president. It wouldn’t have played any role in preventing FSU or any other mass attack you care to name. It didn’t have the authority to do anything, either.
What this all boils down to is the typical anti-gun schtick of using the bodies of the slain as a soapbox to push for all of the crap they wanted the whole time, instead of actually looking at what happened. Granted, I would still oppose gun control then, too, but at least it would make sense.
This is just a special kind of stupid.
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