Gun Free

 

 

Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. The law, still intact after many challenges and rewrites, reads: "It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone."

 

"The government should do something", is the cry we hear in the wake of the atrocious murders of those innocent school children a few days ago. Well, they did, and it was 22 years ago that this bold law was put into effect. What has been the result you might ask.?

 

 

 

The law did not work, at least not as intended. On the contrary! A killer can be pretty much assured that when going into a gun free zone he will be the only one armed.

Think of this: Schools in particular have been singled out as a place without the ability to defend against violence. Have school shootings declined since this law as written? Most major shootings now occur in gun-free zones and nearly twice as many since the act was passed, than in the twenty years prior!

 

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This is plain and simple logic that most media and most people will overlook simply because they deny reality. NOBODY wants guns in the school. NOBODY feels comfortable with teachers and principals 'packing', ready to shoot the next crazy "Lanza" that enters their school. But then neither does anyone want any more innocent grade one children murdered.

 

 

 

 

And here is a story that did not make the news in a big way, but should have. Just days after Sandy Hook, a shooter attempted to gun down people at the Mayan Palace Theater in San Antonio, Texas. (Yes, people have guns down there) An off duty deputy whipped out her own gun and blasted him before the killer could reenact the rampage at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The tragedy was averted. Who knows, it could have eclipsed the Sandy Hook shooting, but it was prevented, and yet it gets almost no coverage.

 

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Until such time that there are virtually no more guns in society, (and that will never happen) at least let institutions and individuals protect themselves. Knowing that they can and will do that, will be a huge deterrant to gun toting 'crazies'.