"The story's always about guns. It's the people that [are] bad," Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said during a press conference Sunday.
"This guy's a bad guy. If I could take my gun off right now and lay it on this counter, nothing will happen. It'll sit there. But as soon as a wicked person grabs ahold of that handgun and starts shooting people with it, there's the problem. The problem is the individual."
Florida sheriff investigating racially-motivated Dollar General shooting challenges anti-gun narrative
Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff T.K. Waters dismantled the narrative that guns are to blame for a mass shooting at a Dollar General that left three Black Americans dead.
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Did any of the other networks include this in their coverage?
If so, I have not seen it. Anyone?
If not -- anyone wonder why?
Waters -is- a black, apparently pro-gun Republican, so...
Additionally:
How do you constitutionally prevent someone who can legally own a firearm from doing so?"Now guns are a tool that people use to do horrible things. But it's the individuals that wield these things. So we are working hard to try to stop that. But in this situation, in this case, there was nothing … illegal about him owning the firearms," Waters said.