Bill would abolish gun free zones.

[kayak-man]

People make mistakes. Guns can get put down for a moment and forgotten. They can be picked up by someone who should not pick it up. I live in a nice area and go to a nice school, but there are a bunch of people who are not so nice there, so to speak.

I just do not see how a teacher or a janitor having a gun is going to solve the problem.

Cal-gun Fan,
I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm not entirely sure. I'm reading it as you think that having a gun on campus is a bad call, because someone will do something stupid (forget the gun, try and be a hero.) I think most of us would agree that someone doing something stupid with a gun is, at the least, frowned upon. Is that right, or am I misinterpretting you?

Personaly, I don't like the idea of teachers being issued guns so that they can stop a shooting, but unless I misread the origanal post, thats not the idea. I thought it was more about someone who already has thier CHL being allowed to go on campus without disarming - which I'm completely fine with.

I feel that the current laws don't just dissarm you during school, but on your way to or from school.

Chris "the Kayak-Man" Johnson

 

[Bobson]

The bottom line is this:

Anyone who sets his mind to shoot someone with a gun is going to do it, regardless of whether it's legal to be carrying (or to even own) a gun, and regardless of the location. If the Secret Service can't protect the President from being shot, local police departments sure can't protect everyone else (not that I'm anti LE, because it's my career field). What this means is that there's only one person you can trust to keep you alive and well, and that's the person inside your pants.

Laws placing absolutely any restriction on guns and open/concealed carry are 100% useless for this reason, and stupid for even more. They accomplish absolutely nothing but misguided opinions in tens of thousands of Americans, and the creation of almost as many excellent victims.

It's my opinion that every American over age 18 should have the right to carry any kind of firearm he or she wants, provided he isn't a convicted felon and is legally sane. Crime rates would plummet.

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

but...but.... The plastic sign, it keeps me safe!

 

[rbernie]

Why is it that one side of an issue is 100% correct and the other is either "delusional" or "statistically impaired" Could it be that they have a different opinion and are free to express that opinion. Some of the statements above tend to be more devisive than informative.

Having an opinion is fine. Taking that opinion and forming it into a prohibitive and restrictive law, in the absence of empirical evidence that the law will do any good, is not so fine and ought not be tolerated.

If you can provide actual statistical proof that schools are safer from violence today than in times past, please do provide a cite. Until then, at least have the intellectual courage to admit that your opinion is based upon wishes and hopes and feelings and not upon empirical evidence.