Posted on 12/13/2007 6:45:42 PM PST by neverdem
The problem with, gun-free zones is that criminals and crazies don’t play.
About 10 years ago on a local (Detroit area) talk show, a teacher called in and said that his principal had asked him, former military, to keep a gun in his class room for just this purpose.
The GOP ought to jump on that idea in every state, shall issue in the states not yet shall issue and allowing teachers concealed carry.
Between the shooting in Denver and the shooting in Colorado Springs the shooter drove by about 50 yards from where I was worshiping last Sunday. Unfortunately we meet in a public high school which is a gun free zone, no concealed carry allowed. If he had decided to shoot us there would have been no one legally allowed to shoot back.
Maybe if we start charging gun grabbers with “Accessory to murder”, they’ll go away...
Not to detract from her heroism in any way, but, wasn’t there a man who challenged and distracted the killer, and got shot? Seems like he’s gone down the memory hole already. What happened there?
Another valuable by-product of Miss Assam’s action is subtle but will pay dividends. Because of her, more people with CWP’s will decide to carry more often.
With any luck, it may be more likely that when some bozo decides to shoot up another public place there may be a good citizen there to stop them.
Perhaps then the tide will turn and the nonsense of the “gun free zone” will subside.
“Gun free zone” signs are all over Minnesota.
BTTT.
That might solve the problem (providing there were armed guards to enforce the regulations).
He had promised himself after Columbine that he would "ride to the sound of the guns" instead of running away, so he did.
He praised Ms. Assam's coolness and courage under fire. He also noted that two hired security guards not only refused to use their weapons, but refused to give them to parishioners who were begging for them to return fire.
He was shot in the arm, hopefully the wound is not serious.
I don’t think a lot will be said about him because to do so will bring attention back to God, heroines and guns, IMO. This has to be a media nightmare.
Might have better luck with civil lawsuits- failure to provide adequate security.
It’s TIME for the civil lawsuits to begin.
So now it's not even OK for armed guards to shoot someone who needs shooting? Why the hell are they armed? In case someone unarmed dares question their authority? What a bunch of pansies. Should be tatooed with a vagina on their foreheads and have their weapons confiscated as well as all the money they've earned as armed security.
Only in the latest attack did an adult have a right to a gun to defend herself and others.
I take issue with that statement in the article. Did everyone else give up their right to own a weapon?
Also, I can find no sentence in the 2nd Amendment where it states we must pay for that right. Some here will say it is for the training, or the right to carry concealed, but I do not agree with that premise. I see a CCW permit as another avenue to deny a person their right nder the 2nd.
BTW- I prefer open carry.
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