I'm sure you have all heard by now about the mass-murder at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. The tally is 8 dead and 5 wounded. What you may not have heard is that you can partially blame the carnage on the emotion-based policy of not allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons into places of business, and many other locations for that matter. According to economist and author John Lott, Westroads Mall had Gun-Free Zone signs posted everywhere. A lot good that did, huh? Were it not for those signs, you might have people walking in and shooting up the place!
Earlier this year, Nebraska approved a concealed-carry law, however, if you listened to the Mike Gallagher show tonight, he took the time to reference that law and list all the places that the law states you cannot take that concealed weapon - and the list was lengthy. Then of course, private businesses can also prohibit customers and employees from packing heat into the establishment as well. Mike Gallagher brought on a guest named Suzanna Hupp, whose parents and 21 others were killed by another mass murderer at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas in 1991. Dr. Hupp barely escaped with her life by jumping through a window. Hupp, who had left her gun in her car to be in compliance with Texas state law, was instrumental in getting Texas to pass a concealed-carry law. She made a good point in saying that she hoped the families of the Omaha mall victims "sue the snot" out of the mall for not allowing people to carry weapons in self-defense. She brought up a good point: if you are not going to allow people to carry the means to defend themselves, then you as a business owner should accept the liability should something happen, such as, say, an evil crazed gunman opening fire in said business.
I know the anti-gun crowd is already salivating over this incident; furiously typing press releases that say, See! See what happens when you let people have guns?! To which I say, See? See what happens when you don't let people have guns so that they might defend themselves and others? See what happens when you emasculate people and leave them to the mercy of the inevitable evil out there that would do us harm?
Aside from the murderer himself, the other people with blood on their hands are the anti-gun activists and legislators whose every waking moment is spent trying to stop me from protecting myself, my wife, my children, and anyone else who is put in harm's way.
Good Day to You, Sir
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
5 comments:
It is high time we end victim disarmament zones. It is now well proven that they only serve to disarm the victims, not the criminals.
Not a good example. I heard the kid had an SKS. You'd have to get pretty close to him to pop him with your concealed pistol and not risk innocents--by which time he'd have popped you.
And no, the fact that he's killing innocents directly doesn't mean that, in this instance, you can do so by accident.
wow. you really think that if the people would have had guns, they would have had time to pull them out and defend themselves?
the second this man stepped off the elevator he began firing. and do you realize that SIX of these eight killed were employees?? you really think employees would have guns behind the counter "just in case" i think you need to let the victims and their families deal with the situation without your input.
You need to look at the bigger picture. A society that is generally armed wouldn't see this thing attempted in the first place, because people like this psycho step off the elevator with an almost ironclad guarantee that no one will be armed. I never said that allowing citizens to carry guns again would drop the body count to zero, but you have to weigh the two choices. It doesn't seem that strict gun control is doing any good.
There was a recent shooting at a mall in Salt Lake City where there WAS an armed citizen who kept the gunman pinned down until more police could arrive. That armed citizen (who wasn't supposed to be armed in that mall) saved untold numbers of lives.
The bottom line is that you can pick out all the minutae of each individual incident all you like. The bottom line is that you apparently want to keep people defenseless in situations like this.
I think my input on this is exactly what MORE people need to do, thank you very much. I wonder how many of those victims and their families wish the victims had had a chance to defend themselves by firing back?
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