Mass shootings are absolutely horrible situations. They are acts of pure evil that no one should ever have to experience.
When those kinds of awful situations happen, even before investigations can be completed to find out what really happened and why, anti-2A activists are already getting interviewed by the legacy mainstream media to push their favored gun narrative which is that gun control is needed and survivors of mass shootings want gun control (presumably because they know better than the rest of us due to their first-hand experience with the situation).
That’s all most people have heard about this issue, so, they often believe attention-seeking clowns like David Hogg who uses his attendance at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida as a way to get in front of cameras as much as possible.
But not so fast, David. Do all survivors of mass shootings really want gun control? No, they don’t. Michael Clements writes,
However, [Stockton schoolyard shooting survivor Rob] Young took a different path, going on to a career in law enforcement. The best thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, he said.
He points out that the Stockton shooter ended his rampage by shooting himself, but did so only after he realized armed police had arrived.
“I always realized that the gun was just a tool that a crazy man used,” Young said. “Would you ever blame a vehicle for a drunk driver who plows into a bunch of kids on a park bench? It didn’t make sense to me to blame an inanimate object.”
Clements continues:
Both Willeford and Poston say that access to guns did not cause what happened in their rural Texas town. Poston points out that the rampage ended when Willeford returned fire. He said if he finds himself in a similar situation again, he wants to be able to stop the killing.
“I won’t go without [a gun] because I don’t want it to happen to me again or to whoever I’m around. I just don’t want it to happen to someone else,” Poston said.
Again, from Clements:
Nonetheless, Young said that violent crime doesn’t come from a weapon; it comes from violent criminals. The most effective means of stopping violent crime is to stop violent criminals, he said.
And as you and I know, that often means having to show or use a firearm to save the lives of innocent people by engaging the attacker.
Make no mistake, legal and widespread gun ownership saves lives, and gun control does just the opposite.
