Huffington Post Wants To Blame Gun Access For Spokane Shooting, But Here’s What They’re Not Asking

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Posted September 17, 2017 12:30 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

With a school shooting in Spokane, we shouldn’t be surprised to see any gun journalists writing about how it’s all the fault of the gun. Despite the fact that the Spokane County Sheriff wasn’t quick to blame guns for the incident…or maybe they did it because he wouldn’t do it for them.

From The Huffington Post:

But when a reporter asked Knezovich how the shooter had access to the firearms used to kill classmate Sam Strahan and injure three others, the sheriff was reluctant to discuss gun control issues.

“Minors are not supposed to be in possession of a handgun until they’re 21,” he said. “You never know how people get ahold of weapons. Those are things we’ll be digging into in trying to figure out what exactly happened here.”

But it’s no mystery how Sharpe gained access to the weapons he fired at school. Knezovich acknowledged there is a gun safe in Sharpe’s house. The teen told police that he knows the combination to the safe and bragged to fellow students that his father purchased guns for him, according to court documents reviewed by The Spokesman-Review.

“We’ll have to figure it out and go from there,” Knezovich said of the …Read the Rest

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