She couldn't have scripted a better fundraiser. McDermott, by the way, didn't have a felony record and so would not have been stopped by a background check, even on the legal market. Disarmament activists never leave their imaginary world long enough to consider such problems, despite the extensive networks of drug gangs in the country. Concealed carry laws are proven to substantially decrease the numbers of mass murders. Disarmament laws only empower the likes of McDermott.
Armed citizens stop such thugs.
The most realistic way to prevent the tragedy would not have been the passage of more laws, but to have had two or three employees in the building with a pistol. If McDermott had known of such a potential force, he might have stayed in bed that day. Dear Times of London, Call me a crazy yank, but I still regard the tradition of separating news columns from editorial writing a prudent one. Brodie writes disparagingly of permissive American concealed carry laws, yet such laws constitute the ONLY type of gun provision proven to reduce mass murder. The shooting tragedy was horrible.