Biden’s Calls for Gun Control Are Completely Irrelevant to the Wisconsin Case

Here are two items that, taken together, sum up how utterly useless the Democratic Party's reflexive calls for gun control have become:

Item 1, from CNN (redactions mine, to avoid naming the killer):

Authorities identified [redacted], 15, who went by the name [reacted] as the shooter at Abundant Life Christian School on Monday morning in Madison, Wisconsin, according to Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes.

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The shooter pulled out a handgun and opened fire on their peers, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said.

Item 2, from the White House, in response to the facts relayed in Item 1:

Congress must pass commonsense gun safety laws: Universal background checks. A national red flag law. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Notice the problem? These two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another. They do not intersect. They are unrelated. They represent mindless pabulum, reiterated reflexively and unthinkingly every time the word “shooting” enters the news cycle.