After hearing the news of shooting in a Fort Myers, Florida, nightclub where 2 teens were killed and 17 more were injured, Jason Moore, the owner of a gun shop, reacted immediately.

He had the employees at his gun shop move roadside signs to just outside the club’s parking lot that said: “We come to you, concealed weapon permit.”

The shooting of early on Monday morning happened after a party for teenagers was emptying out of Club Blu. Sean Archilles, 14 years old, and Stef’An Strawder, 18 years old, died. The youngest person injured was of 12 years.

This incident is the second recent shooting in Fort Myers to receive widespread attention. In October, a zombie-themed event that attracted 20,000 people to the city’s downtown ended when a gunman fired shots into the crowd, killing 20 years old Expavious Tyrell Taylor and five others were injured.

The ZombiCon gunman along with most of the suspects in the city’s murders last year are still at larege. After 13 people were killed in Fort Myers in 2015, police have made four arrests.

In the Club Blu case, three men who were identified by the deputies as “persons of interest” had their first appearances in court on Tuesday.

Outside the Club Blu , a makeshift memorial formed in a mulch-filled flower bed on Tuesday. A poster board was in the middle which was addressed “to the shooters”, with prayers for the families of the victims which included the words like, “I pray and cry for a better world.”

But when Moore heard about the shooting at Club Blu, and at the Orlando nightclub shooting a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53, he wondered about whether anti-gun regulations led this. Laws restricted patrons from bringing guns into nightclubs.

Moore said, “There’s a movie theater down the street from me that has a big sign saying you can’t bring your gun in, and I won’t go inside. That sign is like a big advertisement to the bad guys on where to find their victims.”

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By Prakriti Neogi