Virginia Beach Police Chief: No Gun Control Would Have Prevented Deadly Attack
Written by
AWR Hawkins, Breitbart Published: 02 June 2019
During an appearance Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera made clear no gun law would have prevented Friday’s shooting that killed 12.
Stephanopoulos asked Cervera if “we need more restrictions” in light of the attack.
Cervera responded by talking about a gun-related paper he and other chiefs published a year ago, then observed, “But I don’t think most of that would have mattered in this case.”
He added, “We do have the Second Amendment, it is very stringent for our country. In this particular case the weapons were obtained legally. Everything was done in a legal manner by this individual.”
On June 1, 2019, Breitbart News reported that the building in which the shooting occurred prohibited city employees from being armed for self-defense. The gunman targeted city employees.