Posted November 29, 2018 3:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

By now, we’re used to it. In fact, we’ve come to expect it.

Whenever there’s a mass shooting, there’s bound to be some public display of emotion that tends to include anti-gun comments made by speakers. It’s as normal as blue skies or Paris Hilton being annoying.

But following the shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, we didn’t see it, which was a surprise.

While we didn’t hear much in the wake of the Santa Fe High School shooting, that was in Texas. Texas has a lot of people in favor of guns in general and people who understand that it’s not the gun’s fault.

California is a different animal entirely. It’s a rabidly anti-gun state, and Thousand Oaks isn’t exactly in the rural part of the state that bucks the overall trend there. So what gives?

Apparently, it was a conscious choice.

Three weeks after a gunman fired more than 50 rounds into a country music bar in a quiet town in Southern California—killing 11 patrons and staff and one responding officer, before taking his own life—students at two local colleges walked out of their classrooms to draw attention to gun violence in the United States.

“It’s beyond a national crisis. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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