USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Five people are dead, including the suspect, in a mass shooting at and around a school some 15 miles southwest of Red Bluff, where at least another 10 people have been hospitalized — some of them children,” the Record Searchlight reports Tuesday. “Tehama County Undersheriff Phil Johnston confirmed two children were also shot and wounded, but said children were not among the dead.”
While I was writing this, the suspect was identified by the Tehama County District Attorney’s Office as Kevin Janson Neal, 43. It remains to be seen if social media tracks ever existed for independent investigators to follow, or if they have been covered as often turns out to be the case.
Here’s what citizen disarmament advocates will focus on:
“The shooter had a semi-automatic rifle…”
They’ll also exploit if his politics turn out to have been conservative or “pro-gun.” If not, that will be minimized.
As generally happens when “mass shooting” stories break and news outlets compete furiously for scoops and firsts, information is subject to change, and to different emphasis. Another telling of the story from the same news conglomerate refers to the shooter as “an apparent felon” who was “was involved in a domestic violence incident Monday and had been involved a few months earlier in a stabbing.”
That includes an early report that has since been sanitized. As this Google screenshot shows, and on multiple reports, an eyewitness claimed multiple assailants:
Go to one of the reports in question now, and see for yourself it has been changed:
The reference to “two gunmen” has been removed, even though KRCTV presents it under the heading “Original Article” and includes no editorial note that this substantial piece of information has been altered. It appears the change has been made without notation on other stories as well.
It’s no wonder blog reports alleging conspiracy and cover-up have already emerged.
This report is being filed shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday. By the time it is posted at midnight, expect new information not included above to be released, possibly showing cites to be obsolete or flat-out wrong. That’s the nature of breaking news.
Also expect the usual attacks on gun owners and NRA having “blood on their hands” from disarmament groups, politicians, celebrities, media and useful idiot followers. You’ll no doubt see plenty of examples of that in the coming days.
Just keep in mind that California has Brady Campaign award-winning gun laws. So-called “assault weapons” with “high” (standard)-capacity magazines have already been restricted. They have background checks, waiting periods, registration…
A domestic violence rap will also result in “prohibited person” status, both at the state and federal levels. And if the guy was a felon, that’s another prohibition.
The bottom line – as much as the antis disparage the alternative, the “gun control” they insist on will never be what stops a bad guy with a gun.
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.
In addition to being a field editor/columnist at GUNS Magazine and associate editor for Oath Keepers, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
AS usual only the bad guy is armed. California had better wake up an realize that the police cannot protect you. They can only show up after your dead. Better armed than dead even if you have to go to court. And think about your beloved governor at the next election. I bet he has an armed security detail. Stay alert, stay armed and practice. Don’t talk about it. Keep it to yourself. Like I said, the police will only show up after your dead. And that’s too late.
The lame stream media always jumps to the first and worst explanation of anything just to get their story out first and it doesn’t matter how inaccurate it is. The first is, most generally, inaccurate and claims things that are not necessarily so. In turn that sprouts conspiracy theories and the whole thing gets blown out of proportion and that leaves the public wondering what the true story is. True story is what journalist are expected to produce for the audience but it rarely happens. Is it any wonder why journalists have an approval rating close to Congress.
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241 Conspiracy Against Rights This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same). It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment… Read more »
Your not going to see much Hoopla from the gun grabbers on this one.
This manic did his mass murder spree in in California… the Gun Control Nirvana.
All the laws they could wish are now in place here with the exception of banning all semi-automatics firearms.
Thank goodness the school was able to complete it’s lock down in time.
If not, people could have seen how well Governor Brown signing of Gun Free Zones in School really worked.
Radio news and also on the Dana Show it was reported the killer was a convicted felon. He was out on bail from a recent stabbing. He was described as violent. He was on medication according to his sister. Despite California law and his felony convictions and recent arrest for stabbing and being bailed out he was still in possession of the weapons. Or maybe he bought them all and the ammo after bailing out. So, the sheriff failed to search his home and find the weapons or the California background check failed to stop his purchases of guns and… Read more »
Yeah imagine that gun control Fails yet again,whats the saying about doing more of the same and expecting a different result,oh yeah Crazy.