Politicians who quickly rose to call for action on guns following the deadly shootings this week at Michigan State University should spare us the grandstanding and shift their focus to pressuring police and prosecutors to enforce the laws already on the books, enforcement that might have prevented this tragedy.
The 43-year-old gunman who killed three students and injured five others Monday night on MSU’s campus before killing himself was free to do so precisely because he wasn’t prosecuted for previous violations of gun laws.
Yet Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democrats in Lansing are ready to use the shooting to ram through red-flag laws and other gun control measures that may be warranted but will have little impact if woke prosecutors choose to not enforce measures lawmakers previously passed.
