My bad, only heard about it today. Maybe because of the Red Flag and UBC talk going around recently.

We need to make gun rights less of a partisan issue to prevent stuff like this or the bump stock ban from happening in the future. Sadly the main way that seems to be happening lately is minorities on the left being afraid of being the target of hate crimes (Trigger Warning, JBGC/RR/WILD, SRA) instead of being on principle.

Most of the leftists I know are pro-gun because they don't trust the current government (or governments in general depending on where they fall on that axis) but then the moderates / liberals will say that the police are racist but also the only ones that should have guns in the same breath. And that's because gun rights are seen as an exclusively right-wing thing, and if you're a democrat then a right-wing thing = bad automatically. Never mind that the current worker's rights that we have, we only have because workers died fighting corporate-hired mercenaries and corrupt police (see: Battle of Blair Mountain). And never mind that the main reason California's gun laws are the way they are was because Reagan was afraid of the Black Panthers. And that the only reason guns have to be shipped to FFLs was so that the local dealers would be able to make sure that the people buying them were the white, I mean right, kind of person.