"Gun free zones are free killing zones."
"Gun free zones are free killing zones."
“Denial of reality is treason to the self.”
God bless the woman’s steady hand, and her 9mm Beretta. The word “hero” is thrown about generously these days, but she is a real hero.
“Should the state be obligated to provide armed guards in schools or on college campuses if by law those areas are gun-free zones?”
They would say that the police do that already. But obviously they don’t, do they? My cousin Daniel Rohrbough was killed at Columbine while the police waited outside the building. That kind of thinking will get others killed until we face up to the facts of human nature. There are worse things than having an armed society.
There’s a simple way to deal with businesses who want to ban the lawful carry of firearms on their premises.
As it is private property, they have the right to do so. However, many of them do it not just out of fear of firearms but also out of fear of liability lawsuits - they think that if something happens, they can point to their sign on the door and say “See, we didn’t permit this so we’re not responsible”.
So make the choice a lot simpler. Pass a law that says that any business that chooses to deny its customers and employees the right to lawfully carry arms for self defense on the property may do so. However, the business must then post large (3’x2’, in high-visibility black and white) signs at *every* entrance to their facility and again at every entrance to their building(s). The business must also provide an armed security guard at no charge to each and every person (that’s one guard per person) unless they specifically state that they do not wish such protection. Failure to do the first should result in large fines; failure or choice not to do the second should result in large fines compounded daily *and* total civil and criminal liability should a shooting incident occur on their property.
Now to compensate for this huge liability exposure, any business who *does* allow lawful carry and provides “normal” levels of security (for whatever region and industry) should be immune from civil or criminal liability if a shooting incident should occur on their property.
This is no more onerous than some OSHA or other such Federal regulations. And I should think that many businesses would jump at this.
Sometimes I am real happy to live in Fairbanks. The News-Minor is a pretty good paper, and the reson why the lefties up here choose to get the Anchorage paper instead.
“And, really, does anyone think to bring their gun to church?”
OPINION: Those people who are legally licensed to carry often
do carry - and that includes church, too.
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It wasn't so long ago that kids were taking rifles to school in order to hunt on the way home, yet I can't recall any stories similar to events taking place today. Not to mention the fact that most of these evil self-centerend kids are coming from broken homes. It's only going to get worse, you can already see that among these monsters killing a lot of innocent people is the cool way to go.