A year ago today, the deadliest mass shooting in American history took place. The Las Vegas massacre was an abomination by any measure you want to use, and the killer’s motives are still uncertain.

What we do know, however, is that it sparked a new round of gun control demands. Eventually, they died out as they tend to do, but now that we have reached the anniversary of this tragedy, the discussion is bound to pick up again.

Over at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, they featured an op-ed that takes serious issue with the claim that gun control could have stopped this tragedy from happening.

It really lays out everything we tend to say, especially in light of the atrocity that was Las Vegas a year ago.

Like after so many tragedies, we got a list of “fixes” that would have had no impact at all, even under the most optimistic dreams of those who supported those measures. Like background checks.

It’s not new, though. Remember that the Obama administration wanted to bar anyone on the no-fly list from buying guns after the Orlando Pulse shooting. Unfortunately, the killer wasn’t on the no-fly list.

The knee-jerk reaction seems to be to demand gun control–any gun control–rather than trying to deal with the real issue.

People are the real issue. Not all of them, but a handful of people are so broken that they want to kill as many people as possible. That is the real problem, and unless you deal with that, the best you can hope for is that these broken people will use a different weapon.