https://www.cbsnews.com/news/califor...-bar-shooting/
Another mentally disturbed individual - unfortunately a veteran with PTSD- who had previous police interactions. Acting out committing a heinous crime.
How many of these shootings are enabled by the media coverage- people that would otherwise never think about suh an action.
I cannot advocate censoring media coverage - It is a very difficult problem to identify and keep weapons of all kinds - not just guns- out of the hands of unstable individuals.
Simplistic answer is to "ban guns' - doesn't work - other weapons will be used. See reports of similar assaults in foreign countries with no access to firearms.
The very poor care for the mentally ill is a nationwide disgrace. A major cause of homelessness and violence. Unless the country adresses the root cause of these horrible incidents - not much will change.
Easy answers - no.
Better mental health care and identification of at-risk individuals.
Plug up some of the holes in our weapons system - improve the background check system, no sales without checks at gun shows, better reporting to the background check system of mentally ill individuals legally barred from possessing weapons.
Won't fix all the issues- the silent"lone wolf" is almost possible to detect and predict.
California and its Leftist leadership has not the interest or character to try to addres the root problems- better to ban a "pseudo-assault" weapon such as AR-15,and trumpet that the politicians did something.
A true assault weapon has full auto capability - a semi-auto only weapon is not an assault weapon - no matter how scary to the leftists it appears. Full auto weapons are carefullly regulated by the NFA of 1986 - and never been a crime committed with a legally transferred NFA weapon.