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When news broke of the shooting at the Marysville, Wash., high school, and it was known that the shooter was a student, one of my first thoughts became: What\u00a0kind of loner\/outcast would do such a\u00a0horrible thing?<\/p>\n

Then the second shock arrived. The shooter was a freshman at Pilchuck High School who was popular with his peers, an athlete and a young man who’d just been named homecoming prince.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/washington-school-gunman-was-homecoming-prince\/ar-BBaYo33<\/p>\n

Then I watched a former FBI profiler, Clint Van Zandt, tell MSNBC that this case arguably is the most “baffling” he had seen, given that Jaylen Fryberg was the quintessential non-stereotype<\/em> we’ve attached\u00a0to\u00a0individuals who do these kinds of horrifying deeds. Van Zandt essentially said you could throw the profile book out the window.<\/p>\n

Fryberg killed himself after shooting another student to death and injuring four others, three of them critically.<\/p>\n

The argument will rage once again over how this young man obtain possession of the weapon he used to bring such destruction to the school just north of Seattle.<\/p>\n

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We’re going to hear from gun-owner advocates that no laws could have prevented this from happening. Gun-safety advocates will argue the opposite.<\/p>\n

And look and listen for the National Rifle Association — among others — to proclaim that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment is so sacrosanct that to touch any part of it would render it utterly meaningless.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Washington state voters are going to decide a referendum on the state’s ballot that expands background checks\u00a0to include all gun purchases.<\/p>\n

It’s fair to ask: Would such a provision have kept the weapon out of Jaylen Fryberg’s hands? Probably not.<\/p>\n

It also is fair to ask: Do such laws make it just a little harder for nuts to obtain guns … and do they infringe on legitimate gun ownership?<\/p>\n

“Yes” to the first part. Absolutely “no!” to the second.<\/p>\n\n

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When news broke of the shooting at the Marysville, Wash., high school, and it was known that the shooter was a student, one of my first thoughts became: What\u00a0kind of loner\/outcast would do such a\u00a0horrible thing? Then the second shock arrived. The shooter was a freshman at Pilchuck High School who was popular with his … Continue reading Shooting shatters 'profile'<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[85,1693,2033,3155,4139],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-fbi","tag-gun-ownership","tag-msnbc","tag-school-shootings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}