> The FSU shooting is going to spark an awful lot of debate. Unsurprisingly, a lot of gun control advocates are using this to attack Florida and its relatively lax gun control scheme. They're already pushing the narrative that universal background checks, magazine restrictions, assault weapon bans, and other items on their list of greatest hits would have stopped this awful tragedy, and they expect us to bow down and let it happen. > It's just assumed by both them and the media that gun control would have stopped this from happening. > However, we know otherwise. > For example, we know that the alleged killer could not buy a gun of any kind lawfully in the state of Florida. He stole a gun that his mother, a police officer, purchased from work--her former duty weapon. It was a handgun, along with a shotgun, so an assault weapon ban wouldn't have done anything, either. > The state's red flag law also didn't do a damn thing, either.