No gun control would have stopped either one of them.
Via Hot Air:
That’s a question that gets asked a lot in Democrat circles and it’s a high priority subject in their primary debates. In some areas there is clearly room for a reexamination of sentencing guidelines and it’s not a subject conservatives should shy away from entirely. But at the same time, a rush to release as many prisoners as possible or to shuttle people off to “treatment centers” rather than jail or federal prison presents significant issues as well. We saw a couple of cases of this in recent days which ended in tragedy, taking the lives of two police officers.
One of them took place in Utah over the weekend, where a nearly two decade veteran of the Holladay PD was gunned down while attempting to provide aid to victims of a traffic accident. (Fox 13)
A police officer was shot and killed while responding to a traffic accident in Holladay Sunday, and the suspect who shot him also wounded another officer before being fatally shot a short distance from the first alleged crime.
Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder identified the deceased officer as 44-year-old Douglas Scott Barney, an 18-year veteran of the Unified and Taylorsville police departments and a father of three who worked in the Holladay Precinct.
Upon arriving at the scene of the accident, one of the two occupants of the crashed vehicle jumped out and immediately began firing at Officer Barney, striking him in the head. He later died at a local hospital.
HT: Brian Cates