Politicians didn’t waste any time calling for gun control following the Elliot Rodger shooting. The usual suspects like Dick Blumenthal and Peter King have already made their voices heard. So has Dianne Feinstein, whose renewal of the ineffective Assault Weapons Ban was snubbed last year.
We must ask ourselves if an individual whose family called police with concerns about mental health, who is receiving therapy and who has had several run-ins with police should be allowed to own multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. When anyone, no matter their mental health or history, can so easily obtain any gun they want and as many as they want–we must recognize there is a problem.
You know what? I don’t disagree. Where I do take issue is the idea that more laws would have prevented this. Consider California’s laws for a moment. They are are among the strictest in the country, and they’re a virtual grab-bag of everything the gun-control lobby wants. Continued...