Gun free zone alert
Just remember, if you’re in a “gun free zone,” you’re in reality in a nut-job magnet venue. Every nut-job out there knows they can create a lot of mayhem in such a safe and secure place. Safe and secure for them that is.
On the other hand, stupid people like me enjoy the fact that three of my neighbors are gun owners, one with a CHL. Crime rate in my gun owning, CHL having crazy Texas town of Plano Texas? 1/4 the US national average and lower than any major city tht has highly restrictive laws on gun ownership like NY. http://plano.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm
But to the politicians, the deans of these schools, the school boards, and Congressmen passing such great legislation as “gun free zones,” don’t mind the details. What’s important is that you make grandiose speeches that make reference the “the children” often.
Just ask yourself this, where is it safer, where your 61 year old neighbor shoots the robbers, or in a “gun free zone?” http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/17/national/main3517564.shtml?source=mostpop_story
Someone once said, if you outlaw or restrict guns only the bad guys end up having them. But that statement is silly, right?
Fasten your seat belts folks, the anti-gunners are once again exploiting a campus tragedy to further their confiscatory agenda.
Statement dated Friday 15 Feb 08 by Carolyn McCarthy D-NY
“Yesterday, tragedy again struck our schools. Former NIU student Steven Kazmierczak opened fire in a classroom killing seven and wounding fifteen. His motives are still unknown.
How many more school shootings will this country have to witness before we change our view on firearms? With each day we do nothing, more lives are put at risk from needless gun violence.
Last month, President Bush signed the NICS Improvement Act into law. While this is a good step, we must do more to stop the increasing acts of gun violence at our nation’s colleges and universities.
My heart goes out to the victims and their families in their time of need. Let us join together to prevent other families from experiencing this type of terrible tragedy.”
Statement dated Friday 15 Feb 08 by Barack Obama D-IL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Michael Ortiz, 202 228 5566
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement on the shooting at Northern Illinois University:
“Yesterday, twenty-two men and women were shot, and six were killed, when a madman walked into a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and opened fire.
“We hear about heartbreaking, mindless acts of violence like this day after day, week after week. They come in and out of the headlines, and after awhile, most of the world goes on. But for all the loved ones who are left behind, the pain and the sorrow remain for a very, very long time. Today we offer them our prayers, but we must also offer them our determination to do whatever it takes to eradicate this violence from our streets and our schools; from our neighborhoods and our cities. That is our duty as Americans, and that is our solemn obligation as mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, neighbors and friends.
“Michelle and I offer our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims. They will be in our prayers.”
ed. “eradicate this violence” = outlaw semiautomatic weapons