Within the aftermath of a trans assassin killing two kids and wounding 17 others in an assault at Annunciation Catholic College in Minneapolis on August 27, gun-ban teams had been fast guilty personal gun possession, some even releasing statements earlier than police had held the primary press convention.
Whereas that’s nothing new—gun-ban teams and the so-called “mainstream” media at all times blame the gun, and gun house owners, for each horrific crime—it didn’t sit nicely with the pro-freedom people on the Residents Committee for the Proper to Maintain and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). Earlier than the day’s finish, CCRKBA had launched its personal assertion expressing disgust on the rush to judgment and push for extra ineffective gun legal guidelines.
“It got here as no shock to see anti-gun-rights stalwarts Sen. Chuck Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries attempt to blame weapons reasonably than the deranged particular person who perpetrated this outrage,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb mentioned in a press release printed on the group’s web site. “There are tons of of hundreds of Minnesota gun house owners who’ve harmed no person, however who invariably are penalized by default as a result of they train their rights underneath each the state and federal constitutions.”
Gottlieb famous that police have mentioned the killer used a rifle, shotgun and pistol within the assault.
“But Schumer and Jeffries are demanding that so-called ‘weapons of conflict’ must be banned,” Gottlieb mentioned. “Apparently, they’re suggesting that every one weapons are weapons of conflict, and due to this fact must be banned, which is what they’ve been wanting all alongside.”
Gottlieb famous that Minnesota already has a lot of restrictive gun legal guidelines, together with “expanded background checks,” a ban on weapons in colleges and a so-called “red-flag” legislation.
“We’re sure to listen to many extra particulars concerning the shooter within the days forward,” Gottlieb continued, “however it’s unlikely the gun management crowd will ever acknowledge their restrictive measures didn’t work, as a result of they couldn’t probably work, and tragedies like this show it. There may be nothing ‘frequent sense’ about limiting the rights of law-abiding residents whereas leaving colleges and locations of worship weak to horrific, inexplicable acts of such viciousness.”
Regardless of the failure of all the gun management legal guidelines already on the books within the North Star State, Gottlieb expects for lawful gun house owners to be made the “whipping boy” by anti-gun advocates seeking to cover their very own failure.
“The monster answerable for Wednesday’s mayhem adopted an all-too-familiar sample of apparently taking his personal life,” Gottlieb noticed. “He has escaped punishment, a minimum of on this life, and there’s no purpose for anti-gunners to suggest any sanctions towards the state’s law-abiding gun house owners simply because they want a whipping boy, and to create the phantasm they’re ‘doing one thing’ to forestall such crimes.”
In the end, Gottlieb mentioned his group’s major focus is on the victims and survivors of the heinous assault.
“Our ideas and prayers are for the victims of this tragedy,” he concluded, “whereas our good sense tells us to stay vigilant towards those that would shamelessly exploit the acts of 1 particular person of their ongoing effort to deprive trustworthy Minnesotans of their rights.”
