California Mass Shooting Likely Averted, Still Without Help Of Red Flag Laws

By Tom Knighton

California has had red flag laws on the books for a few years now. They’ve been in place, yet as per usual with these laws, it’s impossible to tell just how effective they really are. While proponents will cite the number of times red flag orders are issues as proof they work, we don’t know how many times they represented an actual threat to human life and how many times they were the result of panicky friends or family.

What we do know is that red flag laws failed to prevent Gilroy. They also failed to prevent Thousand Oaks.

Yet it seems a hotel worker in California appears to have been stopped in his plan to carry out a workplace shooting, and a red flag law doesn’t appear to have been used.

A Marriott employee in California allegedly amassed a large arsenal of weapons and tactical gear in hopes of carrying out a mass shooting at his workplace, authorities said Wednesday.

Rodolfo Montoya, 37, of Huntington Beach, was planning to take out his co-workers with high-powered firearms — including two assault rifles and a pump-action shotgun — which were found by officers during a search of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms