Parents, Neighbors of Annunciation Catholic Church Call for Gun Control

Whenever something awful happens, we’re hardwired to try to keep it from happening again. It’s probably a mechanism built into us to keep the species alive that has never really left. After all, when your village gets flooded and a lot of your tribe dies, you need to do something, or else the rest of the tribe will die in the next flood.

But the desire to do something doesn’t inherently mean that what people think is a solution is a very good one.

After all, one way various primitive cultures have tried to “do something” involved human sacrifice. Not an effective solution, but a disturbing one.

While most bad ideas don’t rise to quite that level, that doesn’t make them any good.

And parents and community members in Minneapolis, in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, are calling for a lot of bad ideas.

Annunciation parents and community members continue to push for gun law changes in light of the tragic shooting.

“There’s just not the political will, I think, to really do anything about it, whether it’s just restricting access to weapons or doing more for mental health care, something has to be done, but I don’t have high hopes,” said Wayne Strom, who lives down the street from the church.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS asked Strom if he is upset that a special session hasn’t been called yet to address gun control efforts.

“Not in particular. I mean, I think this is something that should have been dealt with years ago,” he said. “Why does it take something like this for there to be a special session? They could handle this during the regular legislative period.”

James Lynch lives next to the Annunciation Church. His home security video captured the sounds of the gunfire.

“It’s like, no, this is not a nail gun. This is a real gun,” he said. “And it was just like horror. It was like dread. The most dreadful thing you could ever think of.”

Now, Strom mentions mental health care, and that’s something that should be an easy sell in the legislature. It’s something that doesn’t infringe on gun rights, but may well stop the next mass killer from trying to murder people.

Granted, the Annunciation killer was getting mental health treatment, and it didn’t seem to do him a damn bit of good.

The problem here, though, is that gun control is pushed heavily in the wake of shootings like this, and the fact that some of the parents are the vocal ones allows their voices to be amplified beyond where they might otherwise be. However, it’s funny how the anti-gun voices get amplified, but those that are still pro-gun never get quite the same attention.

Regardless, just because these people want gun control doesn’t mean gun control is a good idea.

After all, this is Minnesota. They passed a red flag law last year that did absolutely nothing to stop what happened in Minneapolis. That’s played out in several states over the years. From Maine’s yellow flag law not stopping the Lewiston killer, even though it could have, to the Club Q killer not getting hit with a red flag law in Colorado despite ample evidence it would be warranted, there is a significant list of failings of such measures.

But now the same kind of people who push these measures are now saying that, because the last law failed, people should totally listen to them again and pass something else that won’t do anything.

Color me unmoved.

Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.

Help us continue to report the truth about the Schumer Shutdown. Use promo code POTUS47 to get 74% off your VIP membership.