On Sunday, a 24-year-old man from Maryland opened fire at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida. When the shooting stopped, two people were dead and a dozen more were injured. The shooter took his own life.
Gun control advocates seized on the attack and began hammering away at Florida’s supposedly irresponsible gun laws. Perhaps no one was a succinct as MSNBC’s Ali Velshi who made a passing reference to the fact that the shooter was from Maryland before rattling off a list of Florida’s alleged shortcomings. As he put it: