Less than 1% of gun related crimes in the USA are perpetrated by gun owners that legally obtained their weapons through current laws involving waiting periods and background checks. The laws we have in place work. We have a system that works. If gun control advocates simply want the current laws that we have in place to be enforced with more strength, go for it. I'll support that no problem, including nuking out no background checks or waiting periods from person to person sales or gun shows.
As for the Florida shooting and the 'kid that fell between the cracks' of the system, I'm still waiting for the Prosecution attorney(s) to submit evidence that the specific long gun purchased by Cruz was the weapon responsible for all 17 reported victims. Until that happens, I'm still dubious that the nation's been told the absolute truth of what went down. A school safety drill held in the morning on the day of an actual shooting where all installed video cameras weren't working, conflicting evidence from witnesses about the number of shooters as well as when the shooting actually happened, on top of Cruz simply walking off campus while talking to a female student to later hit up a McDonnalds like nothing happened and was THEN arrested while he was so stoned on drugs that he couldn't even walk is all kinds of fishy. That's on top of the David Hogg "I was there right when the shooting happened" nonsense offered from a 20+ year old young man who graduated from high school in California in 2015 that actually shot his footage of the shooting in the school in a closet during the drill, and later told CBS when the real shooting happened he hopped on his bike to ride over 3 miles with his camera to somehow enter the police cordon to interview students.
Leave Florida and Sandy Hook completely out of this discussion as points of reference for gun control. I'd prefer to stick to factual events and statistics.
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