Another valid point that the cowardly progressives won't respond to.
http://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2016/08/20/gun-owners-america-
disarming-good-guys-not-disarm-bad-guys/
On August 18 Gun Owners of America (GOA) highlighted “the lie behind gun
free zones” by pointing out that disarming good guys does not disarm bad
guys.
The video opens with GOA executive director emeritus Larry Pratt saying, “I
don’t want to feel safe, I want to be safe. I want to be able to protect
myself, I want other people to be able to protect themselves, and going
into a gun free zone is definitely not the way to protect anybody.”
GOA executive director Erich Pratt then speaks, saying, “There’s a whole
list of places where killers have actually targeted the places where people
can’t protect themselves.” He pointed out how the Aurora movie theater
gunman “had several theaters within a 20-mile radius of his home–seven
theaters that he could have chosen. He didn’t go to the biggest theater, he
didn’t go to the closest theater, he went to the only one that had [No Guns
Allowed] signs posted. When he targeted that theater he was relatively
positive he was going to be the only one with a firearm.”
Larry added, “We’re not going to make people safe by trying to restrict
access to guns. Because bad guys, we have found, get access to guns no
matter what. You’ll impede it for the good guys, bad guys will [still] be
armed.”
The high number of shootings in gun free zones bolsters GOA’s position. In
fact, gun free policies are the single most common characteristic of recent
mass shootings in the U.S. From Pulse Orlando (June 12, 2016), San
Bernardino (December 2, 2015), Umpqua Community College (October 1, 2015),
and Chattanooga military offices (July 16, 2015) to the DC Navy Yard
(September 16, 2013), both Fort Hood attacks (April 2, 2014 and November 5,
2009), as well as Sandy Hook Elementary (December 14, 2012), the Aurora
movie theater (July 20, 2012) and many others, the tie that binds is not
the type of weapon used but the fact that law-abiding citizens were
defenseless because of gun free policies.
Erich Pratt stressed that strict gun controls have also turned entire U.S.
cities in quasi-gun free zones, where innocent law abiding people are at
the mercy of criminals who still have guns and always will. He said:
In places where the government makes it illegal or very difficult to own a
firearm for protection. Those are typically the most dangerous places–like
Baltimore, like Washington DC, like Chicago. That is where people typically
are waiting for police; that’s almost their only option and sadly, a lot of
people pay the ultimate price.
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"...And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to
the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a
century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time,
with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."--
Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 13, 1787