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Colorado Shooting Shows the Failure of Gun Control Laws

Proponents for more gun control are making a dangerous argument

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Erich, you are exactly right, gun control has failed. The defining factor in each of these massacres, is that they were carried out in gun free killing zones, where guns are banned, which makes for a safe place for perps to carry out their evil.

There was an article in The New American magazine, some time ago, written by a couple women that were protected by AK47's, in the hands of Korean merchants, protecting their businesses from being burned by out of control mobs, in LA. Before this, they were any gun control bill.

jag57 of MO 9:38PM December 20, 2012

Lack of education isn’t an excuse for ignorance! Allowing yourself to remain uneducated is ignorant but it is your choose, none the less. Support our 2nd Amendment Right!

Heather Eakle of OK 3:35PM December 20, 2012

This is so true. The latest shooting a couple days ago also proves what this author is saying. I can't believe that each time there is a shooting anti-gun people supposedly gain ground. Gun rights people should have the upper-hand in these situations. If the shooting in "gun free" aren't perfect examples of what trying to prohibit gun causes, I don't know what is.

More guns = less crime!!!

Net Benefits of WA 10:51PM December 19, 2012

Prescribed drugs killed 200 times the numbers killed by guns in America last year. Are they addressing that issue? Of course not. Prescribed drugs are a Trillion Dollar industry. What about wildfires ? Billions of dollars and lives lost there too. Wanna outlaw matches? Permits issued for zippos?The fact is, This has been an ongoing attack against the bill of rights since "the womens temperance league" in the early 1800s. Law abiding people were stripped of their right to bare arms. Once again we as a people will face surrendering our weapons or risk becoming the outlaws we wish to defend ourselves from.

Ron Terry of CA 9:37AM October 11, 2012

Well, here in AZ we have only one "Gun Law', and that is a state law prohibiting cities and counties from making "Gun Laws". Constitutional carry was instituted a couple of years ago and many even ignore firearms prohibitions on private property, simply keeping their firearms concealed while in the premises (prohibitions are illegal unless lock boxes are provided for firearms at the door, which most business prohibiting firearms don't have). I can pretty much guarantee that if this shooting had happened in Phoenix, there would have been a dozen or so people opening up on the perpetrator from all directions and he wouldn't have gotten off more than a few rounds. Had there been no "Gun" for the perpetrator to use, might he not have gone to Home Depot and bought 30 dollars worth of chemicals and pipe and built bombs ?. The world has never been, can never be, and will never be a safe place to live. The trick is simply giving people the right to protect themselves from the dangers it entails. A right which America's Banks, and the Democrats and Republicans they own, desperately want to take away so that the precious parasites can continue to steal from you with profit on the illegal private bank debt they substitute for a legal constitutional currency until you have nothing left for them to steal, at which point we have the final evolution of "Free market capitalism" which is a "Communist police state".

David Brown of AZ 6:59PM September 28, 2012

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trollolol of LA 3:13PM September 25, 2012

"What? Its a gun free zone, so the killer should have never been allowed to set foot in the theater. If the gun free rule had really been upheld and the killer was denied access, not a single life would have been lost, including the killers own."

J of KY 7:30PM August 12, 2012

Is this a joke?! PLEASE tell me this is a joke!!

This is the STUPIDEST comment I've ever seen on the internet, and that is seriously saying something!

Maybe J from Kentucky would volunteer to be the guy who goes up to the gun toting psycho to politely tell him that he's made a mistake, as he's in a "gun-free zone" and therefore can't follow through with his plan to murder innocent people. I'm sure that'll work. Surely the gun toting psycho, who has no problem murdering people, will heed the "gun-free zone" rule, right? Right??

(These people walk among us, folks, and they can VOTE! Terrifying.)

J of NJ 9:16AM September 11, 2012

The horse has long since left the barn ya'all. Look, after 32years 3mos in the San Diego Crim. Just. Sys, I now believe

NO LAW makes an honest person out of a crook. Nor, can it make a community any safer than responsible behavior does.

Sad, but true I will carry my .45 ACP and pray I never need it, rather than ever need it and not have it.

Blessings,

Keep your power dry, eye on the target, breath and hold---now that is true gun control

Vinny Angelo, BS, MBA, Ed.D, JD

vinny of CA 7:22PM September 07, 2012

What? Its a gun free zone, so the killer should have never been allowed to set foot in the theater. If the gun free rule had really been upheld and the killer was denied access, not a single life would have been lost, including the killers own. Saying the rule itself caused the deaths of innocent people is like saying a drunk driver who ran a red light didn't kill the people in the other car, but the traffic light did by allowing the other people to think it was safe to cross.

J of KY 7:30PM August 12, 2012

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

The U.S. city with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, Washington, D.C., has the highest murder rate at 24 per 100,000. The state with the most unrestrictive gun regulations, Vermont, has the lowest murder rate at 0.48 per 100,000.

Bruce of CA 8:46PM July 29, 2012

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