A horrific scene at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado this afternoon.
After the passage of several hours, the Boulder police chief announced 10 people were killed by a gunman including a police officer named Eric Talley, a 10-year veteran of the department.
The suspect has been taken into custody and is being treated for injuries at a local hospital. As of this writing, the suspect has not been identified.
This attack comes six days after a mass shooting here in Atlanta which claimed the lives of 8 people including six Asians.
Naturally these two heinous attacks coming in rapid succession will increase calls for gun control. It was only last week that a judge in Boulder County blocked Boulder's ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. This will only add to the anger and grief. The Colorado Supreme Court will likely hear the case down the road. Whatever the constitutionality of Boulder having such a law on the books, it remains to be seen if that law or any other gun control measure would have prevented what happened today. Undoubtedly we will learn more about the man once he is formally charged.
I'm not against gun control measures per se. I like Red Flag laws and I don't think people with violent criminal records should own guns. But people with criminal records who don't observe the law aren't likely to observe gun control laws. It might be a good idea to have these laws on the books. Yet having these laws doesn't guarantee they will be effective.
I wish there was an easy answer to such awful violence. There are, of course, no easy answers. But that won't stop people from offering them.
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