Oregon has passed numerous gun control measures in recent years and keeps trying to pass more. They keep being more and more insane than the last, and each one is sold to the public as being necessary for public safety.
So what happens when it becomes clear that the laws aren't working? That's what's happening, and our proof is literal acts of domestic terrorism.
In particular, the shooting up of a Tesla dealership.
Gunshots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon on Thursday for the second time in a week in ongoing vandalism and protests around the country since CEO Elon Musk became a key figure in the Trump administration.
Around 4:15 a.m., more than a dozen shots were fired around the electric vehicle dealership in the Portland suburb of Tigard, according to the Tigard Police Department. The shooting caused extensive damage to cars and showroom windows, police said. No one was hurt.
A similar shooting happened on March 6 at the same location. Police said they continue to work with federal partners at the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives to thoroughly investigate. An ATF explosive detection dog has been used after both shootings to help search for shell casings, police said.
This is the second shooting at this location, but not the second overall.
Thankfully, it seems no one has been hurt in these incidents, but let's understand that these are acts of violence motivated by ideology. That's the legal definition of terrorism.
Since this is homegrown, it's domestic terrorism.
Some don't like throwing that label around, but I don't care. They can learn to live with disappointment, especially after some of those same people said nothing when the NRA and its membership got labeled that way despite no evidence of any of them acting violently.
We also need to understand that if these parties aren't caught and punished, this will escalate.
The violent left tried to kill Donald Trump twice before the election. They're vandalizing--including acts of arson, which is an act of violence--against Tesla dealerships all over the nation, and it's just a matter of time before they try to kill someone else, someone who doesn't have Secret Service protection.
But Oregon's strict gun laws should have been sufficient to curb these attacks in that state, right?
Clearly, they're not, but if they can't stop domestic terrorism, how are they going to stop more pedestrian forms of crime? At what point will people in Oregon recognize that their rights have been curtailed for nothing?
It's never a good idea to give up liberty for safety, but it's arguably worse to give up liberty for safety that's never provided at all.
Oregonians have done just that. Their rights are a joke, one treated like a privilege and they resist all efforts to fix the infringements, and it's accomplishing nothing at all.
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised to see state Democratic lawmakers being the ones pulling the trigger in these cases due to their hatred of Elon Musk.