Brian Doherty Says Colorado’s New Gun Laws Didn’t Stop the Shooting

Colorado’s gun laws made the news last week following a shooting
at Arapahoe High School in the city of Centennial. One student was
injured in an 80-second attack involving five gunshots and one
Molotov cocktail. Shooter Karl Pierson then killed himself with a
12-gauge pump action shotgun that he had legally purchased (As an
18-year-old he would not have been able to legally purchase a
handgun). He was reported to have been cornered by an armed deputy
on the school grounds before the suicide.

Pierson exhibited no known “warning signs.” He was a debater, a
track runner, strongly anti-Republican and anti-free market. There
was no easy or obvious way to mark him as a person who needed to be
kept away from guns. Some thought he seemed “weird” at times, he
was bullied a bit, and he went to Bible study. In other words,
writes Brian Doherty, he was just like many, many thousands of
other American teenagers. Better eyes, better programs, better laws
could not have prevented this particular shooting from
happening.

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