Last week in Marion County, Florida, three teenagers were shot to death in what local law enforcement believes were gang-related offenses involving perpetrators who he says are also juveniles, with one of the alleged murderers being 12 years old.

On Friday morning, the sheriff’s office held a press conference where Sheriff Billy Woods confirmed they had arrested two of the three suspects, 17-year-old Robert Robinson and 12-year-old Christopher Atkins. They face first-degree murder charges after allegedly confessing to at least one of the murders.

During the press conference, a somber-looking Woods addressed the media and immediately sought to tackle what inevitably would be a topic of conversation in the press and the community: gun control and the punishment that the perpetrators should face.

Woods did not mince words:

“There are individuals out there viewing, and to include some of you media, who want to blame the one thing that has no ability or the capacity to commit the crime itself, and that’s the gun. These individuals committed the crime. So what’s the solution? I wish I could give you that answer because this world would be a whole lot better. But the fact is, society fails it. We do not hold our juveniles accountable. We minimize their actions,” Woods said. “…School districts across the state and across this nation need to quit minimizing the actions of their students. Hold them accountable. That’s where the failure is.”

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Later, Woods took a question from a reporter who wanted to know how the suspects obtained their guns. After responding that the guns were stolen during a burglary, Woods seemed to address another reporter in the crowd, telling them in no uncertain terms that more gun laws likely would not have prevented the tragic murders of the three teenagers.

“The bad guy’s gonna get a gun no matter what law you have put in place,” he correctly pointed out.

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Inconvenient truths are what they are, and no amount of spin from the gun control crowd on the left and in the press is going to change that. Good on Woods for being unafraid to speak them at a time when the ugly media/Democrat shaming and blame games have reached a fever pitch.

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