Springfield, VA – Executive Director of Gun Owners of America (GOA) Erich Pratt stated the following after the tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida:
“This tragedy breaks everyone’s heart at Gun Owners of America, and we send our sincere thoughts and prayers to everyone effected. It is disturbing to see a coward attack students who are so treasured by friends and loved ones.
“However, it is disgusting to see media pundits and politicians calling for gun control as the knee-jerk reaction to this tragedy.
“The fact is this tragedy happened in a gun free zone, where sadly over 98 percent of the public mass shootings occur.
“Furthermore, anti-gun liberals tell us that these types of shootings don’t occur in other countries. But that’s a lie. The U.S. is not even in the top ten when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings.
“Some lawmakers may seek to implement more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, such a the misnamed ‘NICS Fix’ legislation. However, no form of gun control will help prevent these tragedies.
“Instead, GOA calls on Congress to immediately pass the ‘Safe Students Act,’ legislation introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act, which enable evil doers by leaving teachers, school administrators, and parents unable to protect students. In fact, 81 percent of police officers support arming teachers to stop school shootings.
“Lastly, GOA calls on state legislatures, including Florida lawmakers, to pass Constitutional Carry legislation to remove the unnecessary legal barriers to carry a firearm.”
Erich Pratt, or another GOA spokesperson, is available for interviews. Gun Owners of America is a nonprofit lobbying organization dedicated to protecting the right to keep and bear arms without compromise. GOA represents over 1.5 million members and activists. For more information, visit GOA’s Newsroom.
Yup, that pretty much nails it.
First off I don’t plan on going swimming while carrying. Secondly, why am I going to buy/use a shoulder-holster that needs a belly band. Probably overpriced too! POS.
I would add that we need to call on state legislatures to repeal state level “gun-free school zone” laws that prohibit licensed concealed and/or open carry in schools.
If it had been a threat against fed dot gov, the bureau would have moved heaven and earth to find the guy. They’d have called Youtube and started tracing. But it was just a comment from a “threat vector” that they don’t prioritize, so they went through the motions. Those “internal database searches” probably took less than 30 minutes.
Yes, they could have and should have called Youtube. They didn’t even say that they did.
Basically, the bureau is designed to build cases against prioritized breakers of federal law. Don’t believe me? How long did they sit on the Nassar case? 1 year.
We need to talk about how to get more guns onto school grounds. Parent volunteers comes to mind.
The antis just need to learn one fact… that prohibitions don’t work. For proof, they can look to Prohibition of alcohol during the 1930’s and our ongoing “War on Drugs”.
Further, we’re dealing with 19th Century technology dressed up in Cerakote. They can ban it all but any determined, mechanically-skilled, mass murderer will be persistent enough to find or build whatever weapons he needs.
Bans are futile.
What GOA neglects to mention is that all of those other countries with more mass shootings than the US are in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Central America. There, it’s cartels and warlords. Here, it’s everyday citizens.
Robert,
While I can’t excuse the dereliction of duty evidenced by the FBI’s inability to ID this kid, I’d like to point out an issue in your post that the InfoSec professional in me can’t ignore. Since I’ve worked closely with law enforcement on InfoSec issues, I believe I have an informed opinion on the matter.
Having an IP address is generally worthless for legitimate investigation purposes. Law enforcement will try to get an IP when possible, but it is only circumstancial evidence as it is far too easy to mask your true IP.
You do need to be logged into a Google account to comment on YouTube. The FBI could have easily obtained a warrant for all of his account information which would have likely led them directly to him. It also would have likely shown his links to white supremacy based on search data the warrant would have provided.
I am astonished by both the article and the comments here totally missing the point:
BACKGROUND CHECKS HAVE NEVER PREVENTED A CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE BRADY ACT AND WERE NEVER INTENDED TO. They were intended to sucker gun owners into asking government permission to exercise a right government has no lawful authority to issue or deny and waive their 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th Amendment-protected rights to obtain that bogus, illegally-issued, permission.
The background check is a SEARCH WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE OF WRONGDOING, AND THUS VIOLATES OUR 4TH AMENDMENT, It TAKES our right to keep and bear arms AND our right to be secure from unwarranted search WITHOUT DUE PROCESS BY A COURT OF LAW and thus violates our 5th Amendment RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS. It deprives us of our longstanding right to be secure from being compelled to WAIVE A RIGHT (any right or rights) as a precondition to exercising a right in violation of our 9th Amendment and longstanding doctrine.
AND background checks violate our 10th Amendment RIGHT to be secure from the federal exercise of authority NOT DELEGATED BY and State exercise of authority PROHIBITED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED.
The federal government has no authority over our right to keep and bear arms whatever, and while States have the Police Power to regulate the USE of arms in the interests of public safety, they have no lawful authority over the RIGHT to KEEP AND BEAR arms. They waived that right when they ratified the Bill of Rights.
When a future Leninist (read “Democrat”) administration is in power, they will REVOKE the bogus permission issued at the point of transfer, and you will find yourself with no rights left to claim: You waived them. You not only waived them, you asserted your CIVIC DUTY to waive them. Ya reckon y might want to put a stop to this crap now, rather than wait until you’re in the middle of a firefight?
multi-culturalism and “diversity” seems to have a plus…
when the bogus “Port Arthur massacre” occurred in Tasmania in April 1996, Australia was, pretty much a mono-ethnic, mono-racial country… it was almost ⅞ European-origins;
in fact: most of that ⅞ … prblby abt ¾ overall total ppltn …. was of Anglo-Celtic origins;
plus: Australia had a small population (it still does) …. not much more than 20mlln people in a continent the size of the US;
it also had a small, tightly controlled media and, pretty much, a bi-partisan political system where the two major political parties had little if any major disagreements over significant-type issues… and….the overwhelming majority of people supported either one or the other of these two political parties….in fact: they were compelled to b’cs of the compulsory voting system;
as can be deduced from all of the abv, it would not be hard to see how, in those pre-Interwebs/pre-Android days, most of the population could be got to agree on an incident in an isolated part of the country that was ‘played out’ in the tightly controlled Australian media as, pretty much, a national disaster…..
its not hard to see how the majority of the Australian ppltn, ‘back-in-the-day’, could be got to “sing off the same song-sheet”, as it were…
ipso facto, and given that Australia had no powerful pro-gun org’ like the NRA and no hard-and-fast Constitutional guarantee to keep and bear arms (although an historical /traditional-type ‘right’ did exist) …it is, again, not hard to see how a bunch of bogus ‘gun laws’ (effectively dis-arming the entire country) were rushed through the Australian Parliament with undue and unseemly haste……
especially seeing as how Australia had just ‘elected’ a gun-grabbing politician (John Howard) as the national leader/Prime Minister by a very convincing, land-slide majority….
after which: it was a fait accompli …….
luckily for youse Yanks, no such “perfect storm” conditions exist in the US…
there are, quite simply, too many ‘stake-holders’ ….. and too many different voices singing too many different ‘tunes’ ….
Trump will not act… he simply doesn’t have the moral authority to so act ….
Neither did Obama…..
so….these faux gun-grabbing “victims” can continue to screech all they like…
the US will not get AUstralian-style gun laws….not unless these leftists and liberals are prepared to fight a civil war first…. which, i’m guessing, they are NOT
And maybe we should also talk about black crime…and how it is rampant given that blacks are only about 13% of the US population…
plenty of blacks are mass shooters as well…defined as 4 or more people shot by the FBI…so???
9.) No limits on hollowpoints, “cop killer” / teflon coated bulllets”, flechete and other armo
The face of “why prog broads are so bitter”. Their “guys” are self gelded eunuchs.
I am not a conspiracy theorist but are they trying to help set up a gun ban? If this is missed how many more are missed? Be vigilant but notice they didn’t tell us to call them this time around.
Do I carry a gun when I’m hiking? Does a buck shed in the woods? Does Howdy Doody have a wooden a$$?
Well, I think you get my drift.
Hey diddle diddle, the cat & the fiddle,
The elk jumped over the Hughes,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the media ran away with the news.
Jews who are anti-gun are just Pro gas chamber.
Aaron Zelman, founder of the JPFO, spoke about these crazy jews. He also spoke about the true reason for gun control in America. To disarm slaves and newly freed slaves, and black people into the 20th century.
I should specify the crazy self-hating reform Jews.
The entire history of the FBI from its inception has been an empire building organization which has never been what it portrays itself to be, i.e. a national Police force. It has spent more time and energy on public relations than actual law enforcement. For the first thirty years, it denied the existence of the Mafia because the Director had a gambling habit.
This latest PR stunt shows they have reached the nadir of their long history of ineptitude.
As long as the USA fails to create an actual National Police force to take over local and federal law enforcement in its entirety, there will be gaps in the system which criminals will exploit. And school children will keep dying in a hail of bullets.
But not allowing armed security in schools is the biggest crime of all.
Clearly they should stop letting Carl read nursery rhymes to the elk they capture.
-Excerpt from the cockpit audio recorder recovered from the downed Hughes 500 pictured above-
“Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle,
The Cow jumped over the moo— oh my God no!!!! I didn’t mean actually ju -crashing sounds-”
“Damn it Carl! We told you to shut the F*ck up!”
They are weaklings, soft minds that were raised in a soft / PC world.
Those who would give up freedom for some security deserve neither…
My response to them is “fuck your feeling as my God given rights are more important”.
Oh no! My neighbor is doing something legal that I don’t like! Better complain about it.
This wouldn’t even be a story if the land owner was anybody else but Trump.
It was my first pistol. It’s accurate, dependable, cost-effective, and there’s a lot of aftermarket accessories. It’s the whole fanboy thing that disappoints me, there isn’t anything special about it and in fact it’s not the easiest to shoot or the most comfortable. I don’t give a damn how it looks, it can be cerakoted if that’s a problem. I can’t shoot it one-handed for more than a minute without some serious arm strain, whereas my beretta I can for 10 minutes easily. Recoil is an issue for this pistol more so than others, in particular anything made by federal will recoil more than the others I’ve tried. But as I’ve said, it is dependable and it will shoot every time. Mine didn’t like steel cased ammo and in fact a shell lodged in the barrel after firing and that was the end of that, I tried a few other cheap brands but eventually settled on winchester white box. Since doing so, I have never had a problem after 500+ rounds. Every brand of personal protection rounds has worked, and I’ve been through about a dozen.