Prayers go out for the victims and their families and friends in today’s horrible attack in Binghamton, NY.
Sensible gun owners now anticipate anti-gun organizations and anti-gunners in the media and government to jump on the spilled blood as leverage to eliminate dangerous guns. If there were only a few legitimate CCW permits issued to building occupants, this crime may have been over before a dozen victims were killed.
John Lott posted this sensible analysis on FoxNews.com:
Time after time multiple-victim public shootings occur in “gun free zones” — public places where citizens are not legally able to carry guns. The horrible attack today in Binghamton, New York is no different. Every multiple-victim public shooting that I have studied, where more than three people have been killed, has taken place where guns are banned.
You would think that it would be an important part of the news stories for a simple reason: Gun-free zones are a magnet for these attacks. Extensive discussions of these attacks can be found here and here. We want to keep people safe, but the problem is that it is the law-abiding good citizens, not the criminals, who obey these laws. We end up disarming the potential victims and not the criminals. Rather than making places safe for victims, we unintentionally make them safe for the criminal.
At some point, you would think the media would notice that something is going on here, that these murderers aren’t just picking their targets at random. And this pattern isn’t really too surprising. Most people understand that guns deter criminals. . . . .
Defensive Gun Uses (DGU) are estimated as high as several million a year.
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/siteinfo/newsround/gunlie.html
The media bias directed towards the defensive use of firearms is inexcusable.
And the assault weapon ban? The Clinton administration prosecuted 4 people in 1997 and 4 people in 1998 for violating the assault weapons ban. Our country is run by idiots. Over maybe overrun is the proper word.
Sometimes the old saying rings true, “when guns are out-lawed only outlaws will have guns”. Those on the left will never like or approve of gun ownership and will continue to seek more and more controls on gun ownership. The leaders of those forces on the left live in gated communities, or in great buildings with armed security, and yet they would deny that same security to the common man.
I found this tidbit to be astounding:
In other words, someone dials 911, the cops get there two minutes later and cower for an hour before even trying to ‘protect’ anyone.