Anti-gun lawmakers secretly love public mass shootings. They say they don’t, but they never seem to lack a certain degree of glee in offering up gun control bills.

In the wake of the Apalachee High School shooting, there’s been no shortage of such lawmakers, either. Plenty of claimed that their pet gun control bill could have prevented the shooting, all despite absolutely no evidence otherwise. The next Georgia legislative session should be interesting for just that reason.

But it’s not just in Georgia by any stretch. We’ve already had plenty of national-level Democrats express their own perverse glee by pushing their anti-gun agenda, and we’re also seeing it in neighboring Alabama.

Every year, Democrats in the Alabama Legislature propose bills they say will help reduce gun violence, and 2025 will be no exception, with four already in the pipeline and a fifth being pushed by a sheriff.

The bills will likely rekindle the debates that resurface after every school shooting, like the one at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Ga., where four people died and nine others were injured.

A 14-year-old student is charged with murder. His father is charged with second-degree murder for giving him the weapon — a semi-automatic, AR-15 style rifle — as a Christmas gift.

“This young man, little boy in Georgia, was equipped by his father,” said Rep. Juandalynn Givan, D-Birmingham. “He equipped this young man to go out and be a killer.”

Givan has pre-filed a bill, HB13, that would make it a felony to sell or give an assault-style weapon to a person under 18. It would also be a felony for a person under 18 to possess an assault-style weapon.

First, this is not a “little boy.” He was 14-years-old, a teenager. 

It’s funny how 18- and 19-year-olds are children and younger teenagers are “little boys,” but some of these same dipsticks want to make it legal for these “children” to vote. Absolutely pathetic.

As for Givan’s bill, there are serious constitutional issues with this.

For one thing, saying someone under 18 can’t possess a certain type of firearm means they can’t actually use their parents’ guns of that kind at the range. It’s not their gun, but they’re learning how to operate a firearm. This is something that’s a deep part of life in states like Alabama. Further, while what happened in Winder, Georgia was awful and I’m not about to cut the father any slack over giving this kid a firearm of any description considering what we know and what he knew, not every kid is that kid.

A lot of kids aren’t disturbed. A lot of them are trustworthy. There’s no reason to treat them like they’re all potential mass murderers.

However, there are other gun control measures being pushed, as well as there being an upside to all of this.

Other bills pre-filed for next year would ban devices that help semi-automatic firearms fire more like automatic guns – bump stocks and Glock switches.

Most of the proposals face an uphill battle in the State House when the session starts in February. Republicans hold three-fourths of the seats and generally oppose gun control bills.

The odds of Alabama Republicans being so rattled at what happened in another state that they abandon a core part of their nature are slim at best.

These bills will get filed, and with the possible exception of the bill on full-auto switches–which would just let non-federal prosecutors take on full-auto switch cases–will die an ignoble death in the cold darkness of legislative hell.