Just before Easter weekend, a 20-year-old student opened fire inside Florida State University’s student union, killing two and wounding six others before being shot and apprehended by law enforcement officers. Recent reports suggest that the suspect suffered from significant childhood trauma related to his parents’ divorce and custody battles, and many of his classmates had previously expressed concerns about his alarming rhetoric.
Almost immediately after the shooting, some gun control activists sought to cast the blame on supposedly “lax” gun laws, and they called for a slew of new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms.
It doesn’t matter to them, of course, that Florida prohibits individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms or that the gunman used a handgun belonging to his stepmom, a sheriff’s deputy. Nor does it seem to matter that…
