Gun-free zones contributed to the shooting, the Charleston shooters first choice was a college campus.
Via The Hill
Gun-control measures would not have stopped tragedies, like the mass shooting in South Carolina that left nine dead, from occurring, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday.
“Florida is a pro-gun state. Gun violence has dropped. There’s a reason for it,” the 2016 Republican presidential candidate told reporters after a town hall event in Nevada.
“We created a balance that’s focused on lowering gun violence but protecting the Second Amendment, and it’s a model for many other countries and many other states because of that,” he added, according to CNN.
Bush said none of the gun-control proposals backed by President Obama and others would have prevented the massacres that have taken place across the country.
“Every one of them. There’s not been a single thing that he’s proposed recently that would have changed the course of any of these tragic cases,” Bush said.[…]
Bush said he didn’t think “we need to be politicizing the issue.”
“I’d also say going forward that these cases — that the race system in Charleston or these cases of people who are just mentally deranged — we as a society better figure out how we identify these folks long before they feel compelled to take up a gun and kill innocent people,” he said.