Despite lack of information, NC Democrats use Raleigh shooting to call for gun control

Taking a page from Joe Biden’s anti-gun playbook, Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina are using last week’s murder of five people in a Raleigh neighborhood to demand their Republican colleagues get on board and support new gun control legislation, despite the fact that police have been tight-lipped to date about the type of weapons used in the shooting or how the 15-year old suspect was able to obtain them.

The Raleigh police are expected to release at least some details of their investigation on Thursday, but that’s apparently too long to wait for Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue, who lives in the Hedingham neighborhood where the shootings took place.

At a news conference on Tuesday Blue declared that gun control “is an issue that transcends party,” calling it a matter of safety while remaining mum about any specific piece of legislation that he believes could have prevented the attack from taking place.