Ohio State And The Inevitable Response

This morning news flashed that there was an active shooter at Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio.  Students and faculty were told to shelter in place if they could not escape the scene.  That was followed with reports that there were two shooters, that a car was used to ram fleeing students after the fire alarm in one building was pulled, that people were dead, that no one was dead, that the shooter was dead, that there is a second shooter in a parking garage, that there were no guns involved but only one attacker using a knife, and so on and so on.  Now we are being told that the scene is under control and the attack is over.  The attacker is dead, and at least ten people are wounded, one seriously.  It is still too soon to understand what actually happened.

So here we are in the middle of that attack and the confusion that surrounds it.  We get the inevitable response that goes immediately to gun control.  The political onslaught is cascading through social media and consists mostly of lamenting that another attack was not prevented due to lax gun control laws.

The only proper response to these ghouls who are more interested in their political points than in the lives of the people in danger is "Give it a rest."  Right now, we don't know if this was a terrorist attack or not.  We don't know if guns were used in the attack or not (although the police obviously used their guns to neutralize the attacker).  We don't know if there were two attackers or only one.  We also don't even know the identity of the attacker who is dead.  Once that has all been sorted out, there will be plenty of time to talk about the gun control issues.  For now, let's just wait.