From the Department of “DUH!”
As outraged politicians called for an investigation Monday into how a violent parolee got his hands on a semiautomatic rifle and shot three people at a Granada Hills church festival, frustrated law enforcement officials admitted what has become painfully clear – if criminals want guns, they’ll find them.
Despite some of the country’s toughest gun laws, California’s violent ex-cons, like Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, have no problem arming themselves. – Shooting spotlights gun sales problem
The “semiautomatic rifle” was a .22.
I wonder if it was a Marlin Model 60 “assault weapon.”
More “DUH!”, same source:
“We try and enforce the law, but those that are intent on breaking the law will break the law,” said Lt. Steven Nielsen, head of the LAPD’s gun unit.
A lesson a lot of women with “restraining orders” learn – the hard way. And another:
Despite years of cracking down, officials say the strong demand for weapons – everything from revolvers to semiautomatic handguns – continues to fuel an underground arms trade organized by gangs and other criminals.
Father Guido Sarducci’s five-minute university economics curriculum: “Supply and Demand. That’s it.”
But the response? Do it again, only HARDER!
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich argues that more safeguards must be put in place to prevent the tragedy that rocked Granada Hills last weekend.
(h/t to Zendo Deb for the pointer.)