As America mourns the loss of another 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the left has wasted no time in calling for a repeal of the 2nd Amendment. Claiming gun owners and members of Congress are responsible for ‘an epidemic of mass slaughter’ in the United States, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut wasted no time, attacking Americans’ most sacred rights before the bodies of children had even been removed from the school. Absent from Murphy’s comments as usual, was any mention of increased security in schools, a national conversation on mental health, or the reasons why American culture has degenerated so severely that the phenomenon of mass shootings has only now become commonplace in a country that has been armed to the teeth for over 200 years.
The coming arguments of the anti-gun rights left have already taken a heavy blow as it has been revealed that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter, identified as 19-year-old former student Nikolas deJesus Cruz, had already been reported to the FBI and local authorities as a potential high-level threat following disturbing comments on social media, but according to the FBI, they were unable to verify the comments specifically came from Cruz. Had authorities been able to act on Cruz’s terroristic threats and obvious mental instability, there is a real possibility that 17 teachers and students may be alive today. But of course, those are hard things to talk about, and career politicians in Washington and talking heads on television would rather blame an inanimate object than have a difficult discussion. If Chris Murphy and his Democrat friends in Washington want to help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the clinically insane, they should stop throwing FBI resources at phony ‘Russian dossiers’ and investigations, and immediately hold Congressional hearings on mental health and its connections to violent acts.
According to research data from the Crime Prevention Research Center, as of 2016, 98.6% of American mass shootings since 1950 have taken place in so-called ‘gun free zones.’ Of course, gun free zones are gun free for law-abiding citizens. Criminals are criminals. They do not obey the law, and a sign indicating a gun free zone will stop a mass shooter from entering; in fact, it may encourage them.
Gun free zones in the United States, especially our children’s schools, where armed security is often non-existent, have created a nation of fish in a barrel for those wishing to carry out massive acts of violence. More laws don’t make Americans safe, taking real world precautions against violent and unstable individuals does. Just as Israel combatted school attacks in the 1970s, the United States can combat mass shootings in 2018, but our politicians, law enforcement, and voters must all be willing to have honest discussions about security, mental health, and the rapid deterioration of American culture.
