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A Look at the Facts on Gun-Free Zones
nationalreview ^ | Oct. 20, 2015 | John Lott

Posted on 10/20/2015 9:43:42 AM PDT by PROCON


Some have a hard time accepting that criminals can be deterred from committing crimes. They don’t believe that potential mass shooters have second thoughts when faced with the prospect of armed citizens who can fight back. They seem to think that everyday Americans can’t help stop attacks.

But it is getting hard to ignore that mass public shooters keep choosing to attack locations where victims can’t defend themselves. It’s little wonder that gun-control advocates resort to desperate tactics.

There have been a series of articles from Politico, the Huffington Post, Slate, and the New York Daily News with similar titles meant to cast doubt on defensive gun use, such as “the myth of the good guy with the gun.”

Since at least 1950, all but two public mass shootings in America have taken place where general citizens are banned from carrying guns. In Europe, there have been no exceptions. Every mass public shooting — and there have been plenty of mass shooting in Europe — has occurred in a gun-free zone. In addition, they have had three of the six worst K–12 school shootings, and Europe experienced by far the worst mass public shooting perpetrated by a single individual (Norway in 2011, which from the shooting alone left 67 people dead and 110 wounded).

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; gunfreezones; gungrabbers
Good article showing the absurdity of safe gun-free zones with many examples of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun.

Will it convince any liberals?

MEH...

1 posted on 10/20/2015 9:43:42 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Those signs should be mandatory for liberal homes since they want it so bad.


2 posted on 10/20/2015 9:56:03 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Jews For Cruz)
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To: PROCON

Good article.


3 posted on 10/20/2015 9:57:03 AM PDT by YourAdHere (I just took a huge Obama.)
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To: PROCON

Bookmark


4 posted on 10/20/2015 9:58:27 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: PROCON

I scanned through the article in hope of him naming the two instances that were not gun free zones.

I’ve been asking this on a few different forums and all I can come up with is Tucson.

Anybody know the other?


5 posted on 10/20/2015 10:28:42 AM PDT by digger48 (ars)
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To: PROCON

Problem: There’s been a shooting at a gun-free zone (school).
Solution: more gun-free zones.

Problem:There’s been another shooting at a gun-free zone (church).
Solution: more gun-free zones.

Problem: There’s been another shooting at a gun-free zone and the shooter went to 3 places before finding a place that declared itself gun-free (movie theater).
Solution: more gun-free zones.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

Does this mean we have lunatics in charge of our safety?


6 posted on 10/20/2015 10:29:29 AM PDT by Exeter (Hillary Clinton's new campaign slogan-"Gimme that crown! It's MINE!")
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To: Exeter

Yes.

CA....


7 posted on 10/20/2015 10:41:45 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Good idea.


8 posted on 10/20/2015 10:44:07 AM PDT by Katarina (NO to Trump!)
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To: PROCON

Ever notice that the scolds who insist that all muslims should not be judged by the actions of a few lunatics are often the same ones insisting that all gun owners should be judged by the actions of a few lunatics?

These are also the same ying yangs who tell us homosexuals are born that way, but pedophiles can change.

They usually make this argument at sentencing and parole hearings while they make the “muslims—good!”/”guns—bad!” argument every day.


9 posted on 10/20/2015 11:23:15 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice; Norm Lenhart
Too true, liberal logic is illogical and upside-down thinking, it bears no sense in reality.

That's why I support Norm's solution.

Put liberals in cages and weld them shut.

10 posted on 10/20/2015 11:28:45 AM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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To: PROCON

Embrace Cage Theory.

“Lenhart’s Existential Cage Theory” An Idea whose time has come.

1: Get a cage
2: Put the Liberal in the cage
3: Weld the door shut
4: Walk away

It’s existential. Eventually if humanity wishes to continue to progress, we have to eradicate the mindset of liberalism. Churchill May have right in his day about retrograde forces but today, liberals are more of a threat than any muslim ever was. Or ever will be.

Muslims will simply kill. Liberals have turned the world into an idiocracy that ALLOWS muslims free reign to kill. And punishes any who oppose it.


11 posted on 10/20/2015 11:34:34 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Back in 1968, after the murder of Bobby Kennedy and the anti-gun hysteria that followed, some people actually turned their guns into the police, then claimed they lived in fear of their neighbors who still had guns.
Then there were those who placed signs in their windows...”THIS HOUSE IS NOT ARMED!” It didn’t last long.


12 posted on 10/20/2015 11:57:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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