In the wake of a horrific mass shooting at Michigan State University, the Democrats running the state immediately rushed to exploit the tragedy to push for more gun control.
However, one inconvenient fact stands in their way.
According to local outlet WJRT, following the tragedy, in which three students at MSU were killed, Michighan’s leftist Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state’s Democrats called for more gun control laws.
In a statement, Democrat U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint said, “We are not helpless and must act to make it harder for bad people to get their hands on a deadly weapon. No one law will stop every bad person with a gun, but we must act to stop the madness.”
The idea behind this is clear: The left insists we need to have even more restrictions on our Second Amendment Rights in order to ensure that criminals and “bad people” do not get their hands on weapons.
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The theory is that we will be safer from mass shootings once we have laws in place that stop criminals from carrying guns.
Unfortunately for Whitmer and the Democrats, the facts of this case do not justify that. The man who committed this horrific shooting already had a criminal history. Some officials say he should not have had a gun in the first place.
According to the New York Post, the shooter, 43-year-old Anthony McRae, was arrested in 2019 after he was found to be in possession of a loaded firearm without a conceal-carry permit.
McRae pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and was on probation for the next two years.
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However, according to WWMT-TV, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said McRae should not have been able to own a gun, despite the fact that his probationary period expired.
“The charge under Michigan law is either a low-court felony or high-court misdemeanor; for the purposes of being able to legally possess a weapon, it’s considered a felony,” according to a statement from Nessel’s office. That…
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