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Criminals tend to ignore wishful “Gun Free Zones”
I know that many of you don’t like guns. I know that there are some among you who think gun owners are nothing more than armed Neanderthals. Fine. If you’d like, we can sit down and have a healthy debate on this topic since I know that the vast majority of gun owners are extremely responsible individuals with a deep regard for safety and an abiding respect for the law.
What actually brings me to this topic, though, is the fact that — following a shooting at the recent Folklife Festival — Seattle’s Mayor Greg Nickels signed an executive order asking all departments to come up with a plan to ban guns on all property owned by that city.
What stands out in my mind is that, if you look at all of the shootings that have occurred in “Gun Free Zones,” it’s obvious that the rules are obeyed only by law-abiding citizens (victims) and are completely ignored by criminals. Were it otherwise, we could expand upon such ideas and simply post signs everywhere saying: “No crime beyond this point” and what a wonderful society we’d all have.
It is truly worth your time to read the whole thing.
Thanks to the Mad Rocket Scientist for sending me the link.
I dropped him a note just to say thanks for writing such an honest and logical piece… Apparently, there were a number of people who wrote him as well, though most of them were far from positive.