Here is Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) moments after a suicidal 16-year old murdered two of his classmates in Santa Clarita, California:
At the very moment I was on the Senate floor making a motion to force a vote on universal background checks, news of the Santa Clarita shooting broke. Republicans objected, my motion failed, and now, as a consequence, the slaughter of our children will continue. Devastating.
California has already passed a “universal background check” law. California, in fact, already instituted a 10-day waiting period, a limit to handgun purchases, a microtracking system, a personal safety test, an “assault weapon” ban, an age hike on the purchase of shotguns and rifles from 18 to 21, “red flag” laws that allow police to confiscate guns without genuine due process, among many other restrictions. And none of those laws stopped the “slaughter” of children in Santa Clarita.
It’s illegal for a teen to walk around with a handgun anywhere in the United States. It’s illegal for a California teen to go to Alabama or Arizona or Virginia to buy a gun. It’s illegal for any teen to purchase a gun through the mail or at a gun show or be gifted one from his dear uncle. It is illegal for parents to allow their kids to procure their firearms. No state or federal regulation now being championed by Senate Democrats would have stopped this teen, which is the case for the vast majority of mass shootings.
Murphy knows this. Kamala Harris and all the others leading Democrats who try to emotionally manipulate Americans to support their restrictions know this. All those who smear the NRA as a terrorist organization know this. All those who claim that Mitch McConnell has blood on his hands for failing to convene the Senate pass a Democratic bill that has absolutely nothing remotely to do with the Santa Clarita shooting know this.
The reaction of Murphy and others reminds us of two things: 1) Stricter gun laws don’t stop mass shootings. 2) There will never be enough laws to satisfy Democrats.
and 3) There is no tragedy Democrats will not exploit.
The goal is not safety; if it was, there would be no support for open borders, unlimited illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. The goal is disarmament and citizens’ defenselessness.
there are more school shootings in CA than any other state. WHY?? most states have a min 21 years to purchase a weapon. maybe the smoke from the Ca fires has gotten to chris murphy’s brain-another member of the new american communist party.
Maybe because California has a population of 39,865,590 people, which is 10 million more than the state having the second highest population? California’s population is larger than 197 of the world’s 233 nations. More than one of every ten persons living in America lives in California.
@Greg: The question is when will they come up with any law that actually would work.
Punishing lawful sane people with more and more regulation, restrictions and laws hasnt helped a tiny jot or tiddle.
@MOS # 8541: Because California encourages doing whatever you what whenever you want to do it. The government breaks laws, so why would the citizens obey? If someone displeased you, just kill them