Glendale, AZ Officials Call for Gun Control After Shooting

Glendale, Arizona, isn’t a place we’re likely to talk much about. I mean, it’s freaking Glendale, Arizona. It’s even less interesting than most other Glendales out there.

But when something happens, all of that can change, which is what transpired a couple of nights ago.

A scuffle at a local restaurant that was featuring a dance party resulted in a terrible shooting.

City officials and community leaders shared their condolences with the victims and their families after a fatal shooting on the evening of May 4 outside a downtown Glendale restaurant.

Three people were killed and five others injured after multiple people opened fire in the parking lot outside El Camaron Gigante, a mariscos and steak restaurant. Police said the violence was an isolated incident tied to “bad blood” between the parties.

A Glendale police spokesperson said the restaurant’s security kicked out several people fighting inside the venue, where a dance party was taking place.

Several local and state officials said they wanted to see increased efforts to prevent gun violence.

U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari

U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Arizona, issued a statement the morning after the shooting, decrying the violence and calling for greater gun control. She represents the congressional district where the shooting occurred.

“For too long, Americans have been forced to watch as gun violence affects every corner of our communities — schools, movie theaters, places of worship, and local restaurants like El Camaron Gigante,” Ansari shared in a statement on May 5 in response to the Glendale shooting. “Commonsense policy reform to regulate guns has broad, bipartisan support. It’s long past time we stand up and do something.”

There were, of course, multiple similar statements, though one city council member also felt that education on how to make better decisions would be useful. I can’t disagree there.

However, as for the rest, I should note that as of yesterday, police still hadn’t identified suspects, much less learned how they got firearms in the first place. It’s always a little amusing how often lawmakers jump on gun control as somehow being absolutely essential before we even know anything.

Were these stolen guns that the shooters stole themselves? Got them on the black market? Something else?

We simply don’t know anything, so how can you begin to argue that the problem is insufficient regulation on guns?

Of course, the answer to that is that it doesn’t matter. Ansari would rather use the bodies of the dead as a soapbox to push her agenda than worry about the details or anything else. This is par for the course for anti-gun ghouls who trade on tragedy to advance the narrative, even if the tragedy in question shatters it.

Look at how many failures there were that led to the FSU shooting, only for us to claim we need more gun control that most definitely wouldn’t have done a blasted thing.

It’s happened after every high-profile shooting we’ve seen since these things became so relatively common. As it has been, as it ever shall be.

And it shouldn’t be.

Unfortunately, anti-gunners are going to anti-gun no matter what else happens.