Late last night, which turned into early this morning, I wrote and posted here that the people thinking more gun laws would solve problems with mass shootings, or shootings in general, were seriously naive and totally mistaken.
Among my points was that such onerous regulations largely only punish the law-abiding because criminals don’t obey laws.
No sooner had I checked zerohedge.com on my computer this morning than I had evidence to back up my assertions. Word came of a legal gun owner stopping a potential mass shooting.
This happened in Charleston, W.Va., Wednesday night. The reports tell us there was a graduation party at an apartment complex when a man was chided for speeding through the area.
Said man, reportedly a convicted felon, returned with a semi-automatic weapon. Police reports indicate he opened fire on party-goers, fortunately without hitting anyone.
Unlike in Texas, where law enforcement types holed up for a very long time to plan their moves to deal with that school shooter, in the West Virginia example a woman with a concealed carry permit shot and killed the would-be mass murderer.
A local TV report quoted a chief of detectives noting “Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives.”
The dead man had given ample previous evidence of his criminal bent. As noted in various reports, he was a convicted felon, had outstanding warrants for receiving stolen goods and had 20 or so arrests for what were described as “local charges.” Yet he was free to wonder the streets.
As a felon, he was not allowed to possess firearms. But he did have one. So, an existing gun law didn’t work. Color me stunned. Or not.
Would the man have been deterred by additional laws? Seriously?
To repeat, the heroic woman who intervened had a weapon, but had it with her only because she had gone through the legal process to obtain the permit.
Without her, who knows how many people might have been killed in Charleston.
But, if the crazed anti-gun opportunists have their way, she may not have had a weapon or the right to carry it concealed.
Emotional, half-baked proposed solutions to problems – think COVID maskholes and CovIdiot lockdowns – have wide-ranging and often greater unintended consequences than the problems presented.
In our deteriorating, violent society of the moment, having a gun to deal with problems when the police are unable or unwilling to intervene, makes sense.
The West Virginia incident is just further proof of this — proof that won’t get wide play on the LameStream national media because it doesn’t fit their narrative of guns bad; criminals merely frustrated victims of the system.
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