Taking School Shootings Seriously Doesn’t Automatically Mean Gun Control

By Tom Knighton

Unless you live in New Hampshire, you’ve probably never heard of Steve Shurtleff. Why would you? After all, he’s a state representative in a small state that most of us don’t pay a whole lot of attention.

But he’s also an anti-gunner, and he recently penned an op-ed where he makes the greatest fallacy of the anti-gun zealot. That’s the claim that because someone refuses to budge on gun control, they’re not serious about working to prevent school shootings.

This year we’ve seen how strong a hold the National Rifle Association has on our Republican colleagues.

On both a state and federal level, officials are refusing to take obvious and necessary steps to solve this terrible problem. In the latest example of our government officials’ ineffectualness, both Gov. Chris Sununu and President Donald Trump’s respective school safety commissions announced they won’t look into the role that guns play in endangering students when examining school violence.

In testimony late last week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos argued that looking into guns was “not a part of the commission’s charge, per se,” even though the commission was created as a response to the Parkland shooting. New Hampshire State Emergency Management Commissioner Perry Plummer, who …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms