The Detroit News: Oxford shooting survivors demand action on gun legislation in next 100 days
The Oxford school shooting, where 4 students were killed by a rather clearly mentally-disturbed fellow student is the current driver in Michgian for more ineffective gun control.
Let's note that prior to the shooting school officials and counselors had such warnings as the kid in question messing with dead animals, drawing pictures of massacres, etc.
To top it off, on the very morning of the shooting, and a charming drawing complete with a message that said: The Thoughts Won't Stop Help Me".
Generally that might be called a clue that the kid wasn't all right.
But, all they did was bring the parents in for a discussion, and they then let the kid go back to class without so much as a psych eval, after throwing off every possible signal that he was about to cut loose. So, within an hour of being sent back to class, he then commenced the school shooting.
So of course, the answer is ban guns, right?
With a Democrat dominated House, Senate and Governorship here in Michigan, that seems to be where the're wrongly headed:
The student-led group focuses on pushing for the passage of state and federal laws that would lead to safer gun storage, universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
We will note the jerk in question used a handgun, not an "assault weapon" in the shooting incident.
We will also note safer storage won't do squat - the parents insist the gun used was locked up at the time it was taken by the kid, kid has claimed it was not locked up.
We already have a universal background check and it would have done nothing to change this incident.
And red flag laws - look if you're gonna ignore all the red flags - as they were for a damn long time with the kid in this incident - such laws ain't gonna cut it there Chucky, nor would it have prevented this incident at all.
So, how about we quit with the knee-jerk gun control "solutions" that will not solve the problem?
Instead how about we do the much harder and more effective thing and work on some serious mental health reform and having school officials do their damn jobs, and have school resource officers (or armed teachers but that gives Dems the vapors) at school to protect kids rather than leaving them vulnerable to the next shooter that gives off every sign but is completely ignored until he starts bustin' up the place?
2 comments:
The Empress of Lansing made it a point at her coronation to say that one of her priorities in her 2nd term was gun control. I am the cynical type, but I always try and take Democrats at their word.
I have been known as a conspiracy theorist, also, and I think that it is strange at the least, to think that a state that just finished with a pandemic with a governor who was among the worst performing in the nation, going so far as to be among the governors to force covid patients to be placed into nursing homes, would then elect a completely Democrat controlled government. This includes the AG, the Sec. of State, both houses and Gretchen Whitless.
I know that Democrats are professional election stealers, but by this time, one would think that Republicans would at the least have it down pat how to ensure the election is at the least honest, something that gives me pause. It may well have been a fair election, but there are a lot of signs that could make someone at the least want to ask questions.
pigpen51: Yes,she indeed is going to push for it, partially to go after her opponents and partially because gun control is a core Democrat belief.
Unfortunately we had absolutely terrible candidates for the AG and SOS positions. Tudor Dixon, who should have knocked it out of the park, decided to fight the Democrats on the field of their choosing by making the election all about abortion and Trump rather than the horrid job Whitmer and co have been doing. Basically she motivated the Democrat base to come out against her in droves, didn't hit Whitmer where she was vulnerable, and on top of that got outspent about 10 to 1 =.
This was an election for the MIGOP to lose and lose it they did.
We're about to get badly smacked as a result.
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