Op-Ed: Brady, Bunk and Santa Barbara

The Brady Campaign was oddly mute at first about the recent tragic Santa Barbara slayings.

Could it be because half of the victims were killed with a knife – three young men were stabbed to death before the killer ever chambered a round?

Perhaps. More likely it is because California ranks #1 on the Brady Scorecard for strict gun control laws, none of which stopped a criminally insane, mentally impaired, pill popping resident of an adult disability center. The Santa Barbara tragedy is another gun control failure.

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The Santa Barbara culprit planned his attacks for months. He slowly and silently acquired his tools of death, and then carried out his detailed plans. As with most mass murderers – as evidenced by none other than Mother Jones reporters – mental illness was the common thread.

Suicidal crazy people bent on murder don’t worry about the laws; not traffic laws, not gun laws, not homicide laws.

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Ironically, California tops the Brady Campaign’s state-by-state score card for strict gun control laws. Cali earns an A- rating with a grade of 89 per Brady. If the gun control laws touted by the Brady Campaign were effective … at anything … then the Santa Barbara slayings would never have happened...

Click here to read the entire op-ed at CalGunLaws.com.