Baltimore Sun Admits Tough Gun Laws Didn’t Stop Great Mills Shooter

By Tom Knighton

The Great Mills High School shooting is a tragedy. Any such shooting is a tragedy, even if no one is hurt. The loss of innocence in students who suddenly have to face the reality that some people just want to kill others is enough of a reason to mourn. It’s just made worse when innocent lives are lost.

The fact that this happened in Maryland, a rather anti-gun state, is interesting for many of us. It was apparently also interesting to the Baltimore Sun.

The gun used by the suspected teenage shooter at a St. Mary’s County high school is difficult for adults to buy under Maryland’s tough gun laws.

Law enforcement officials said [the shooter], 17, used a 9mm Glock handgun in an attack Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School that left him dead and two other teenagers injured.

Gun laws passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., makes it difficult to buy handguns, reforms passed to deter straw purchases. Those same laws also exempt gun ownership from public records requests.

Although the assault weapons ban the General Assembly passed in 2013 gets the most …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms