From "Active Shooter" to Car Ramming, Knife Wielding Somali Born Terrorist

No sooner than there was a report of an "active shooter" at Ohio State University in Columbus, up went the gun control articles.


Then there were tweets like this one:

Ohio State University has an active shooter. I'm so fucking tired of people rejecting background checks. We students have a right to be safe.

As it turns out, however, the assailant did not have a gun. He used a car and a knife to injure 10 people before being shot dead by police. The assailant in question was also an 18-year old Somali born legal resident of the United States. The chances that this attack wasn't motivated by Islamic radicalism are next to nil.

Yes, that OSU student has a right to be safe. But a background check is useless against cars, knives and a religious ideology bent on destruction.

I guess President Obama will spare us his easy access to guns lecture for today. That is unless he decides to whip out his lecture on police brutality.

Of course, President-Elect Trump will probably not spare us a lecture on the need to ban Muslim immigration to the United States. That's all well and good but it doesn't change the fact there are Muslims born and raised in this country and those who convert to Islam. Nor does it change the fact that most Muslims would never do what was done today at Ohio State University.