This...

So much this...

The FSU shooting is a little closer to home than I'd like. I'm about an hour and a half from Tallahassee and have been there many times, including a few trips to the FSU campus.

And right now, a lot of people are using this awful tragedy to justify gun control and call for more of it, but that crumbles in the face of what happened.

See, Florida may be fairly pro-gun, especially when compared to states like California or New York, but it's also what I call the most restrictive pro-gun state in the nation. They have more gun control laws on the books than most pro-gun states ever would.

And none of them did a thing to stop the alleged killer.

In fact, this shooting is actually proof that gun control doesn't stop these things from happening.

Full article, HERE from Town Hall.

Every law Florida has in place, even though it is a CCW state, did not prevent the tragedy at FSU.

Why???

Simple...because criminals will not obey laws.

And to my mind, one of the most egregious laws is the gun free zone law. This prevents licensed conceal carriers from carrying in those zones, preventing a quick response to a criminal bent on killing someone(s).

The Luby's shooting in KiIleen HERE, and Suzanna Hupp's campaign, along with George Bush becoming governor was what FINALLY got Texas to pass CCW.

Sadly, Texas has gun free zones too...

Funny how it's always the 'gun' that gets the press, and the left/Dems/et al love dancing in the blood of the victims while they spout the 'evils' of guns...but you never hear them talk about the criminals that commit the crimes- Witness the lengths the groups in Tenn have gone to keep the writings/manifesto of The Covenant School in Nashville in 2023, HERE.

Or how often the ethnicity of the shooter plays into the amount of 'coverage' a story gets...

How many times have we heard "They were on (insert law enforcement agency here) radar... AFTER the shooting...

I don't have a good answer, but Tom's article just reenforced my belief that I should carry every day, and NOT visit gun free zones. Which is why I haven't been to a movie theater in years, no great loss, and I've saved a bunch of money, too!

It also plays into places I will or won't visit, including entire states and any blue city. I also try to not be where people are doing stupid things, and I'm too old to stay up long enough to get in trouble after midnight either.

Just putting this out here for thought. Who knows, maybe somebody will read this and rethink some things they are doing or not doing and modify their behavior... or not...