Surprise! More national conversation about gun control!

AFP reports that the first words out of the White House after the mindless murder by some disgruntled employee of a TV news team of two former co-workers yesterday, is an equally mindless call for more gun control.

“This is another example of gun violence that is becoming all too common in communities large and small all across the United States,” said spokesman Josh Earnest.

“There are some common sense things that only Congress can do that we know would have a tangible impact on reducing gun violence in this country,” he said.

“Congress could take those steps in a way that would not infringe on the constitutional rights of law abiding Americans.”

Yeah, so what would those steps be? Every commercial purchase of firearms in this country is bolstered by background checks, so what could be different and make the country safer? You know, and still not infringe on the constitutional rights of law abiding Americans? Just give an answer. this is a discussion, right? So. Let’s discuss.

AFP quotes past Obama comments on the subject.

He described the United States as the “one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws.”

You know, like France and Belgium that have laws against gun ownership to protect their citizens. Like those laws protected the French employees of Charlie Hebdo and the customers in the deli the next day. Like the gun laws that protected the museum goers at the Holocaust Museum in Brussels last Spring. Not to mention the fellow who smuggled weapons on the train last weekend in Brussels on his way to Paris.

Vester Flanagan, the shooter in yesterday’s tragedy, whose name was Bryce Williams when he was on the air, wasn’t balanced properly, according to people who knew him at the TV station in Virginia. From CNN;

Larell Reynolds, a former WDBJ employee, told CNN Williams was “not the best co-worker.”

“He couldn’t take criticism and he took it personally,” Reynolds said, adding that when Williams was let go he “threw a huge tantrum.”

“We were in a lockdown the day that he was fired, and a few days later we had police detail that kind of watched over the station,” he said.

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According to [Orlando] Salinas, on Williams’ last day at the station, he created a “ruckus” and other employees moved to another room while police escorted him out of the building.

So, I guess that means that the new legislation should bar angry, black gays from purchasing firearms. That would have prevented Flanagan from purchasing a weapon, certainly, but what about the other angry, black gays who have no intention of ever going on a shooting spree. Or they could prevent people who purchase GoPro cameras from buying guns, because Flanagan used one during his shooting to film himself murdering people and he posted the video to his Facebook and Twitter accounts.

So we should ban angry, black, gay men who own GoPro cameras and have Facebook and Twitter accounts. But, we’re having a discussion here, right?

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