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The mass killing this week in Parkland, Florida, by a 19-year-old troubled young man undoubtedly hurts the arguments and intentions of law-abiding gun owners everywhere. Unfortunately, if reports are true, this case gives those clamoring for gun control space and momentum because of several failures of what is expected with current laws now in place.
For instance, law-abiding gun owners assume that there are sufficient background checks, since they themselves have to answer to whether they are mentally ill and so forth on forms before purchasing firearms. In this case if the shooter had never been declared mentally ill by a court and if nobody connected the dots between one stray comment on a YouTube account that prompted an investigation by the FBI and a comment on the shooter's Instagram account which CBS reported resulted in an alert to the Broward County Sheriff's Office a year before the purchase of the gun, the argument that there are cracks in the system has legs.
As a responsible gun owner, I don't want people like the shooter being able to attain high-powered rifles. That is not to say I want gun control, but I think responsible gun owners
assume that the papers we fill out serve a purpose and someone who is a potential threat would be flagged.
When the Left automatically attacks the NRA
they're attacking law-abiding gun owners who don't want people like the Parkland shooter getting a gun either. If we could cut through all of the lightning rod hysteria and address the problems - and there are a plethora with this case - perhaps we could do some good.
Comment: It was previously reported that an internal investigation at Oxfam revealed Haitian Oxfam director Roland van Hauwermeiren engaged in a 'Caligulia-style' orgy with Haitian prostitutes at his villa rented by Oxfam through public charity funding. The internal inquiry also discovered that a 'culture of impunity' existed during the operation to help Haitians after the devastating 2010 earthquake.Considering all the revelations, it's not hard to understand why people are taking their money elsewhere instead of supporting an organization that seems to be doing the opposite of what it was set up to do.