Yes, stronger firearms laws would have prevented this tragedy
Hows about enforcing current laws and restrictions first?
At the time of the attack, the gunman was out on bail after he was
charged with stabbing a neighbor. Others had complained about him firing hundreds of rounds from his house, and the assistant sheriff acknowledged officers had visited the home.
“We can’t anticipate what people are going to do. We don’t have a crystal ball,” Johnston said.
Yet Neal was free and able to use a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns Tuesday to shoot 14 people, including at an elementary school, before he died in a shootout with police.
It’s not yet clear what the terms of Neal’s bail were, and whether he would have been allowed to possess and fire the weapons on his property at the end of a dirt road in Rancho Tehama Reserve.
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She and her father, who is president of the community’s homeowners’ association, said
neighbors would complain to the sheriff’s department, which referred the complaints back to the homeowners’ association.“The sheriff wouldn’t do anything about it,” Juan Caravez said.
The gunman’s sister, Sheridan Orr, said her brother had
struggled with mental illness throughout his life and at times had a violent temper.