Once again a Democrat blames the lack of new legislation (albeit with the same old policies) for another school atrocity. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), the self-proclaimed “moral” authority on guns after Sandy Hook, proclaimed, “Let’s call it like it is: the horrifying inaction of Congress, slaughter after slaughter, has become a green light to would-be shooters, who pervert silence into endorsement.” Contrary to Murphy’s assertion, the fact is that none of the Democrats’ proposed gun laws, specifically the call to ban “assault” weapons, would have prevented the Santa Fe High School attack.

In this case, the 17-year-old attacker was underage for legally purchasing any firearm, so an expansion of background checks would not have applied. The weapons he used were a shotgun and a .38 revolver, neither of which has been included in any of the Democrats’ proposed gun bans. The fact that no AR-15 was used might also explain why the mainstream media has not given this latest school attack nearly as much coverage as Parkland — it fails to move forward the narrative on the supposed pandemic danger posed by “assault” rifles. Democrats don’t care about children unless their political agenda can be advanced.

Obviously, despite what Democrats like Murphy claim, their real agenda is the repeal of the Second Amendment.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to force Congress to act on anti-firearm legislation, Barack Obama’s former secretary of education, Arne Duncan, made an outright ridiculous call to action. “Do we just keep letting innocent children be killed, or do we want to do something to keep them safe?” he asked. “If we choose the latter, we must think radically, because everything we have done so far has failed.” What does “radically” mean? Duncan offered, “What if no children went to school until gun laws changed to keep them safe? My family is all in if we can do this at scale. Parents, will you please join us?”

Yes, here we have an education secretary telling kids to drop out of school. Never mind that kids are safer in school than out of it.

Duncan then furthered the absurd notion that Congress’s inaction was to blame, bloviating, “This is not rocket science. This is not a difficult intellectual issue. What we have lacked is political courage, and we need to create the tension that allows us to break through on this issue.”

Beyond the asinine comments about Congress being to blame for this latest crime, the audacity to make claims of intellectual superiority while then suggesting that a boycott of schools will create enough “tension” to “break through” is quite simply laughable. Besides, how many kids want to be in school in the first place? Then again, an increased move toward homeschooling is something we can really get behind…

(Updated.)