Posted October 27, 2017 3:00 pm by Comments

By Matt Vespa

On October 1, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock used his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas and proceeded to open fire on the 22,000 attendees, who were enjoying the final night of the Route 91 Harvest music festival. The carnage was horrific, with 58 people dead and over 400 wounded.

Paddock had no prior run-ins with the law, no history of mental illness, and bought all of his guns legally. He passed background checks. No law would have prevented this tragedy. None.

Yet, Democrats still beat the war drum of gun control, still touting expanded background checks that wouldn’t have done anything, and now the issue has evaporated into the ether. It’s a losing issue for the Left, though they haven’t realized it. In the aftermath of the shooting, anti-gun activists were declaring that they would be bolder, more ‘in your face’ when it comes to their campaign to chip away at the Second Amendment (via The Guardian):

“I think the public is far ahead on this issue, when it comes to bolder policy initiatives, than the politicians are,” said Igor Volsky, a founder of Guns Down, a nascent group that is trying to stake out …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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