Clueless Anti-Gun Group Politicize Oregon Mall Shooting

I wonder if these people look at each of these mall shootings as a golden opportunity to push their message?

"Santa Claus could have been shot in the mall," said Penny Okamoto, executive director of Ceasefire Oregon, in an interview with the Portland Tribune. "If you're sick of this, you should call your legislators to tell them to fix the laws so that assault weapons don't end up in the hands of felons."

Nicely politicizing there Ms. Okamoto. First of all this killer did not seem to be a felon so that would not have prevented it. He also apparently stole the gun from his friend so that precluded all legal ways of preventing him from getting the gun. So other then having the government confiscate every gun you really couldn't prevent an insane person from shooting up the mall.

Also even if they did ban assault weapon and made owning them totally illegal it still would not prevent someone from buying a pistol and doing something similar. I mean the Virginia Tech shooter had two pistols. Also in the Aurora shootings the guy could have done about the same damage with just the pistols and the shotgun he had.

I think what people did in this Oregon shooting was perfect. They ran from the fire and hid in stores and waited for police and SWAT to kill off the shooter. Two people died and one was injured but it just seemed like bad luck that it happened to them. I think treating every " hearing firecrackers or popping balloons when there shouldn't be"  incident as a potential mass shooting might save quite a few lives.