Washington Post Lashes Out Over Gun Bill That Failed Months Ago

By Tom Knighton

As noted earlier today, a mass shooting has a nasty tendency to reveal the ghoulish nature of anti-gun voices. They latch onto the tragedy to advance the cause of gun control regardless of the cost. They don’t really care how relevant the matter actually is. What they care about are whether they can use the senseless murder of innocent people for their own purposes.

That includes activist journalists at the Washington Post.

A Virginia bill designed to ban sales of large-capacity magazines similar to those used by the Virginia Beach gunman died in committee in January on a party-line vote.

The fate of the legislation, SB1748, was so widely expected that the outcome drew virtually no public attention. For more than 20 years, Republicans and a few rural Democrats in the General Assembly have killed almost every measure aimed at restricting gun ownership.

The GOP blocked a major push for gun control after the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, where 33 people died. They chose instead to respond to that shooting by joining Democrats to enact mental-health reforms.

That was published on June 1st.

It goes on well after that to state:

Virginia Beach police said their officers shot and killed …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms