This is the part that I brought up to a friend this evening (before I found your post):
"magical thinking behind gun-free zones"
I brought up that same thing today, because it is the problem with people who do not want to know about evil and war --- they want to deny what "good, and sometimes very rough men" have to do in order to protect people including the deniers.
The deniers of the statistics re mini-holocausts about which Dr. Lott keeps tabs, in addition to their denying what good people do nearly every day when they use a weapon to protect their family, their home and property, themselves or some other person(s), yet the deniers want to believe that "something must be done about it*" in order that "this never happens again.*" (*Ripped from the recent headlines.)
Yet, it does happen again.
What is really troubling them, is that they have a duty:
a) to pick up Arms and then fight against "the hood" / violent gang members / Islamic jihad, orb) at least be in support of those of us who accept the greater burden of shouldering Arms.
Instead, the deniers believe that they can, by using magical thinking, strip others of the ability to fight, then *the deniers* themselves have an excuse: "Hey look! I cannot fight because I'm not carrying any _____!" ... and thereby be relieved of the responsiblities of standing up.
They *are* holocaust deniers.
We all wish that the last holocaust "would be the last," but history has proven that disarming responsible people has *never* made that so; to the contrary, disarming people has made them most often victims in larger numbers.
In the U.S.A., there are many 10's of millions of responsible people who are armed, and they do not commit any of the crimes for which they are unjustly accused with political charges uttered from socialists who are determined to define so many good people, as being criminals.
Death by government ranges from a low of 100 million to around 265 million people in the twentieth century.
You would think this fact would sink in even in the densest liberal head. This number doesn’t even include war or abortions.