Trends in Mass Shootings
Has anyone noticed that the most recent mass murders/shootings have all occurred in gun free zones? Now for the cliched, dumb question...how can shootings take place in gun free zones?
Ah, right. People who break laws by definition don't obey them, leaving only the law abiding to deal with the real world effects of well intentioned (read often silly and usually counterproductive) legislation.
It follows as common sense that multiple shootings are more likely to occur when a shooter is all but guaranteed zero return fire. In such a situation, what can the law abiding do? Duck, die, pray, wait for the shooter to reload, and bum rush them, or hope the shooter runs out, or takes his/her own life.
Those choices suck. Since someone has created the environment in which this is possible, does someone have the ironic responsibility to ensure better armed protection for these zones? If law or public policy rule out effective self defense, should the authors of such policy be held liable for the consequences? Given today's litigious society, how long before a NRA lawyer tries this out?
I for one, would love to see more liberalized gun ownership, with many more carry permits issued. It won't happen, but I'd like to see it. Or, as another blogger pointed out, we could just declare Iraq a gun free zone, and bring our troops home. I'm sure the violence would end.
Ah, right. People who break laws by definition don't obey them, leaving only the law abiding to deal with the real world effects of well intentioned (read often silly and usually counterproductive) legislation.
It follows as common sense that multiple shootings are more likely to occur when a shooter is all but guaranteed zero return fire. In such a situation, what can the law abiding do? Duck, die, pray, wait for the shooter to reload, and bum rush them, or hope the shooter runs out, or takes his/her own life.
Those choices suck. Since someone has created the environment in which this is possible, does someone have the ironic responsibility to ensure better armed protection for these zones? If law or public policy rule out effective self defense, should the authors of such policy be held liable for the consequences? Given today's litigious society, how long before a NRA lawyer tries this out?
I for one, would love to see more liberalized gun ownership, with many more carry permits issued. It won't happen, but I'd like to see it. Or, as another blogger pointed out, we could just declare Iraq a gun free zone, and bring our troops home. I'm sure the violence would end.
posted by PKav at 10:28 AM
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