“Oklahoma City police officials said a person died and 14 people were injured in a mass shooting at a Halloween party at an event center early Saturday,” ABC affiliate KOCO News 5 reported Sunday. “The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Saturday near Southwest 59th Street and Agnew Avenue. Police told KOCO 5 that the shooting started as an argument between two groups, and they believe multiple shooters were involved.”

Similar shootings over the weekend were perpetrated in Nashville, where “Ten people were shot, one fatally, in an exchange of gunfire” on Saturday, per The Tennesean. Included were presumptively “collateral” casualties:

“A 12-year-old girl and two 14-year-old girls were in non-critical condition at Vanderbilt Children’s University Pediatrics. The oldest victim was a 55-year-old woman who was in critical condition and undergoing surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.”

“Ten people were shot just blocks away from where Tennessee State University students were celebrating their homecoming,” a blood dancing Giffords posted on X. “A 24-year-old man was killed and multiple children were injured. We can’t keep living and dying this way.”

Ten people were shot just blocks away from where Tennessee State University students were celebrating their homecoming.

A 24-year-old man was killed and multiple children were injured. We can’t keep living and dying this way.https://t.co/VoGEeAfQ8j

— GIFFORDS (@GIFFORDS_org) October 14, 2024

What they mean by that is they want more citizen disarmament “laws.”

Back to Oklahoma City, nominal “Republican” Mayor David Holt picked up that banner on his Facebook.

“Obviously, widespread access to guns contributes to the severity of these events.  I’ve always been a supporter of the Second Amendment, and that includes support for common sense gun regulations, for which we should all advocate. But until Oklahoma moves away from closed partisan primaries, the overwhelming and bipartisan public support for common sense gun regulations will not translate into state policy. “

That’s an awful big “but” Mayor Holt has, one just about every gun-grabber has meaninglessly offered right before they drop the hammer. And as for “common sense gun regulations,” a term straight out of the gun prohibitionists’ playbook, he’s silent on what would have stopped the Halloween homicide(s).

Instead of Bill Clinton’s Midnight Basketball, which didn’t work 30 years ago, he proposes extracurricular soccer. That and “programs that support our young people and interrupt violence,” disregarding the “violence interrupter” shot when, with a gun in his lap, he reached for a police officer’s gun,”  or the “Safe Streets violence interrupter shot and killed in Baltimore, the third in a year,” or… you know, we could go back decades with this.

Holt’s only concrete gun plan appears to be telling people who keep guns in their cars to lock them. Perhaps a more effective approach would be to minimize “gun free zones” so they don’t feel like they need to disarm when they go places and have to leave their guns in their cars or they’ll get in trouble with the law.

Holt is one of those “moderate” Democrat Lite Uniparty Vichycons who appears deluded enough to believe he has “friends across the aisle.” That’s evident from his paean to Joe Biden on Facebook:

“A historic decision to put country above self reflects the values that America’s mayors have seen up close as we have worked with President Joe Biden these past 3 1/2 years. The President is a good and decent man and I thank him for his lifetime of service to our nation.”

That is, until he unleashes the F-15s on gun rights defenders…

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers,” Georgetown University law professor and young Bill Clinton mentor Caroll Quigley wrote in Tragedy and Hope. “Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”

With useful idiot Republicans like David Holt, who needs Democrats?

And the truth of the matter is, Republicans need gun owners more than we need them. Because, say the Stupid Party manages to blow the November elections, either through not knowing how to persuade the electorate or letting the election be stolen. There is a critical mass of us, perhaps Three Percent, who will not disarm.

We’re not the ones opening fire on city streets or unable to contain our violence at Halloween parties. We never go out starting trouble with or victimizing anyone, we mind out business and tend to our families and our work. But for reasons of their own, some in power, abetted by their media cheerleaders, are defrauding low information voters into regarding us as “the greatest threat.”

Here’s to never being pushed to the point where that theory must be tested.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.