Breitbart Writer: I Cant Think Of A Gun Control Law That Would Have Stopped Florida Shooting

[Initech]

AWR Hawkins, a Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, told senior editor-at-large Rebecca Mansour that there was “simply not one” law that could have prevented or “even lessened the chance” of a mass shooting like yesterday’s Florida school shooting that killed 17 people.

Last night on “Breitbart News Tonight,” Hawkins shared his reaction to news that a 19-year-old man had entered a Florida high school yesterday and activated a fire alarm with the intention of shooting and killing as many people as possible. Breitbart hosts leveraged the fact the shooter had been expelled from the high school once for disciplinary problems in an attempt to absolve the gun lobby of responsibility for yet another mass shooting.

“I’ve watched and listened to the calls for gun control already and I’ve listened to those things and you take what you describe, and you take this scenario, and you have a student who had already been expelled so he’s not to be near the school or anything,” Hawkins said. “I can’t think of a gun control law that would have stopped this, and I’ve really tried to think of that today.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/breitbart-writer-i-cant-think-of-a-gun-control-law-that-would-have-stopped-florida-shooting/

Um...................

President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.

The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.

Had the rule fully taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added about 75,000 names to that database.

President Barack Obama recommended the now-nullified regulation in a 2013 memo following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 first graders and six others dead. The measure sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. Breitbart Writer: "I Cant Think." Period. Ignore the dribble that follows that admission. n/t

[Initech]

2. But just remember - this is what the guy we call "president" thinks is "the real news".

[gopiscrap]

3. how about: no guns allowed period!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Hawkins Is Right

He can't think of a law that would have helped. That doesn't mean that many others could have thought of one. It's just means he is probably too stupid to think of one.

[Initech]

5. I'm guessing he probably didn't read past the word "illegal".

Which is true of Trump fans and most laws.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. You Are Highly Likely Correct

My only concern is your use of the word "read". We sure he can do that?

[kimbutgar]

6. Outlaw And confiscate assault weapons law

Gun buy backs and require insurance to gun owners. Better background checks.

See I thought of some laws right off the top of my head.

[forgotmylogin]

7. How about "AR-15s are not legal for civilians to purchase and own"? (n/t)

[wiggs]

9. Of course it's not just the weapons, it's the culture that goes with the weapons. There's

a uniquely American culture which implies that problems can be solved with violence and guns. On TV every minute. In our history books. In recreational 'games.'

It's why 4% of the world's population has 42% of the guns. The easy access, the lack of mental health care, the availability of specialized weapons of war, and the embedded gun culture are all part of the issue. IMHO.

[GeorgeGist]

10. To be fair ...

asking a Breitbart writer to THINK is a bridge too far.

[Lee-Lee]

11. The law you cite wouldnt have changed anything

All it did was blanket label anyone who received Social Security payments via a representative payee as “mentally ill” without any due process or real diagnoses and blanket bar them all from owning guns.

There is no indication this guy was getting any form of disability or other SS payments at all, much less throug a representative payee.

So that law wouldn’t have had any effect on his buying a gun.

[Amishman]

12. Raise the age to own a rifle to 21. If you are too immature to buy beer, you shouldn't buy an AR-15

Only the most retarded Republican could argue with that one.

Also make it possible to charge parents with manslaughter if they don't lock up their guns and their kid kills someone. Not the case in this shooting but still a good idea to keep guns out of kids hands.

[Doc_Technical]

13. Declare all semi-automatic firearms to be military grade weapons.

Forbid civilians from having military weapons in their possession,
like grenade launchers, mortars, artillery pieces, etc.
Civilians may own semi-auto weapons but these weapons must
be kept in an armory for the exclusive use of well regulated militias.

[leftstreet]

16. You should make this an OP

I can't say if it's a good or bad idea, but at least it's AN IDEA

Those are hard to find when these shootings happen.

I'd be curious to know what responses you'd get

[Marengo]

17. How many civilians have operational grenade launchers, mortars and artillery pieces? How often...

Are these weapons used in crime?

[spanone]

14. Could have stopped after 'i can't think'

[Initech]

15. True!