by Michael Connelly
Columbine,
Virginia Tech, Aurora, CO. theater, Newtown, Connecticut, Charleston, SC, Chattanooga,
TN, the Lafayette, LA theater and now Roseburg, OR. All sites of mass shootings
in the United States during the last eight years, and all occurred in so-called
gun free zones. Universities, schools, malls, churches, theaters, military
recruiting centers and bases are mostly gun free zones either designated as
such by the federal, state or local governments, or the institutions themselves.
They are in fact death traps where
virtual targets are painted on the backs of the students, shoppers, movie
goers, church attendees, and even military personnel. If you are a terrorist,
or just a nut case looking to make a name for yourself, your plan is to go
somewhere and kill as many people as possible before the police arrive and can
shoot back. That is the way all of these mass shootings have worked. They are
usually carefully planned in advance and gun free zones are chosen because no civilians
in the zones will have firearms. It is like shooting fish in a barrel.
The massacre at Umpqua College in
Oregon not technically in a gun free zone since concealed carry was allowed,
but the only person on the campus who had a firearm was a U.S. Army veteran who
tried to leave the campus veteran center and intervene when the first shots
were being fired. However, he was blocked from doing so by campus officials. This
is a prime example of the gun free zone mentality on the campus and was
confirmed by the fact that the only security guard on the campus was not
allowed to be armed.
The shooting has caused the usual
leftist knee jerk reactions with Obama demanding gun control and Hilary coming
out with a draconian plan that would include allowing victims of firearm
violence to sue gun manufacturers. It is designed to force manufacturers out of
business and disarm honest Americans through the back door. Apparently, the
only criteria for successful suits would be that someone was killed by a
firearm manufactured by a certain firm. Imagine that, a gun manufacturer could
be force to pay damages to the family of a violent Chicago gang member who was
shot by a rival gang member.
Of course, none of the proposals from
the left mention gun free zones. They stick to the false narrative that gun
free zones will ultimately keep students and others safe from people like the
Oregon shooter. When they are proven wrong they blame the guns, law abiding gun
owners, and the NRA. They will also ignore the facts and come up with
far-fetched narratives that are designed to support their agenda. For example, the
Everytown for Gun Safety group, an anti-Second Amendment organization released
a study that declared that only 14% of mass shootings in the U.S. occurred in
gun free zones. The other 86% they claim occurred in non-gun free zones.
They define mass shootings as an
incident where at least four people are injured. Yet, they include shootings in
private homes since they do not consider them gun free zones. How does that work
in a home invasion situation when armed intruders enter a home where the
homeowner does not own a gun and cannot defend a family that is shot down by
the intruders? The group also includes cities like Chicago where private
firearm ownership in severely curtailed, but criminals are heavily armed.
However, since the police carry weapons the city is not classified as a gun
free zone.
The same criteria was probably applied
to the shootings in Chattanooga, TN. Even though the recruiting center and
reserve center were gun free zones this group would have claimed they were not
since the police in the city were armed. This is the type of twisted
thought that the left repeatedly uses to push for gun confiscation and the
banning of gun ownership by honest American citizens.
When the same data was reviewed by the
Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) it determined that 92 % of the mass
shootings between January 2009 and July 2014 did in fact occur in gun free
zones. The main stream media widely praised the badly flawed Everytown study
despite the fact that it was basically a lie. That is what Obama and the left
will do; lie to justify the destruction of the Constitution of the United
States. We have to do everything we can to stop that from happening.
Michael
Connelly
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