CNN Military Analyst Lt. Col. (Ret.) Rick Francona stated that gun free zones make it so perpetrators “know that most people are not going to be armed” on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Francona said, “we were talking earlier about the gun-free
On August 19 Breitbart News spoke with Gun Owners of America (GOA) executive director Larry Pratt and he described gun free zones as “murder magnets” that must be abolished by hitting their creators where it hurts–“in their bloody pocketbooks.”
In reaction to firearm-related attacks at gun-free theaters in Aurora, Colorado (2012), and Lafayette, Louisiana (2015), Regal Entertainment Group has gone from simply barring law-abiding citizens from carrying guns for self-defense to checking their purses to be sure they are unarmed.
On August 16, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) claimed America is in the midst of a “gun violence epidemic” and suggested there were “204” mass shootings during “the first 204 days of 2015” alone.
On August 6, Star Trek star George Takei waded into the debate between gun rights’ supporters and gun control proponents by mocking the idea that armed citizens make a country safer.
Calls for more gun control almost always follow a public crime or terror attack in which the attacker–or attackers–use a gun. Yet many of the most infamous attacks take place in gun free zones–places where law-abiding citizens disarm themselves to comply with the rules while criminals take advantage of disarmed masses and open fire.
On July 24, Gabby Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly was questioned about the Lafayette theater attack, and after admitting all the facts were not yet known, he pushed for background checks and other gun controls.
On July 17, armed Georgia citizens with concealed carry permits lined up outside a Hiram, Georgia, military recruiting center to keep it safe.
Donald Trump says that if elected president, he will abolish the gun free zones currently imposed on U.S. troops by “[mandating] that soldiers remain armed and on alert at our military bases.”
Over the last 15 years, Brazil has instituted more and more gun control, including gun registration and criminal and mental background checks for gun ownership. Today they have “restrictive” gun control, and one more thing—a 35-year high for gun deaths in the country.
Ohio representative Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) has introduced legislation–House Bill 48–to do away with gun-free “victim zones” in churches and government buildings and on college campuses.
On April 27, a 16-year-old student at North Thurston High School in Lacy, Washington, allegedly pulled out a revolver and shot two rounds into the ceiling before being tackled by a teacher and then handcuffed by the school resource officer.
On April 20, The Washington Post ran a column showing that campus carry has been the law of the land in Colorado since 2003, and the results have not been anything like those currently fighting against campus carry claim it should be.
On April 20 David Axelrod praised country singer Tim McGraw’s commitment to play a gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise on July 17.
Congressional Democrats plan to introduce national gun buyback legislation for “assault weapons.”
On March 24 Texas state representative Drew Springer (R-Muenster) introduced legislation to abolish gun free zones throughout the state of Texas.
As Democrats continue to circle the wagons to preserve gun-free zones, Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th Dist.) is suggesting gun owners support protecting children with background checks, which did not stop Adam Lanza from committing his heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
On February 28, Salon focused on the growing GOP push for campus carry, calling it a “bizarre” attempt to impose a “lethal solution to the campus rape crisis.”
Over the weekend, the Somalia terror group al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks that included targeting Minnesota’s Mall of America (MOA). In response, MOA reminded shoppers that law-abiding citizens with concealed carry handgun permits are barred from carrying guns on their premises for self-defense.
On February 19, the Los Angeles Times reacted to the growing momentum for Campus Carry legislation across the country by referring to the NRA as “crackpots” and reminding the organization that it is the government’s “responsibility to protect the public through reasonable gun control laws.”
The push to put more good guys with guns in schools to dissuade and counter bad guys with guns has re-emerged and is expanding at the state level around the country.
Colorado state representative Patrick Neville (R-Castle Rock), a student at Columbine High School when the school was attacked in April 1999, is pushing legislation to allow teachers to be armed on campus for self-defense.
