They are absurd, period. Anyone who wishes to implement a gun-free zone should be required to do 18 months in a county lockup.
1. they don't care if it's firearm '''free'' or not--they will shoot up the place anyway
2. if not, they will go somewhere else
3. the ''gun free'' zones are so petty arguments don't turn into shootouts/etc
It isn't. If people are encouraged to shoot back at the first sign of a bad guy going crazy, you'll see a lot less of this, and that only happens when there are no gun-free zones.
You mean like the guy that had a CCW that actually stopped a bad guy. Then the cops shows up and shoots the guy with the gun in his hand? They shot the ccw "Good Guy". The Bad Guy was scared off and the one that scared him off died. And don't give me that "Cite, Cite" routine. We all know it happened.
Mistakes happen, DH.
But the point isn't that all crime will be eliminated by allowing Law Abiders to be armed, but that the law abiders will at least stand a chance.
If I walk outside my door and a street criminal (or a terrorist for that matter) pulls a gun on me, at least I stand a chance if I am armed myself. I will be lying on slab that evening if I am defenseless.
I am only pointing out that having too many guns is not a good thing. I wonder how many guns were possessed in the Walmart Shooting in El Paso. It appears that the gunnutters assume that no one was armed. A busy Walmart in "Texas" where no one is armed except for one nut with an AR? There is a better chance of being hit by a meteor. In the El Paso case, it was probably for the better that those guns stayed holstered. It took law enforcement under a minute to handle things. Had some Rexall Rangers opened fire, imagine just how high the body count would have been. And the confusion when the LEOs got there. The El Paso Shooting was actually a win overall.
Another thing El Paso exhibited was why CCW works. The proper CCW training means that the CCW carrier is less likely to go Rambo in a situation like that. I won't go into why but it does delay his reaction. Yes, the Rexall Rangers all believe they would automatically grab that hogleg and go merrily blasting the bad guy but they probably wouldn't. It's not an every day happening. It's a Military Combat Action and it's something that a Soldier spends days, months and years training to react to. It's something that a Professional spends hours each month in Stress Training to react to. The Bad Cop shootings aren't because some cop decided he just wanted to shoot a __________________(insert race here) guy. He lacked the training especially the stress training to handle the situation.