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1. The facts might get in the way of some
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 02:02 PM
Dec 2012

They passed the laws to keep guns out of schools because it sounded like a great idea. It was hooked onto the laws that also protected court rooms and other government buildings. These other government buildings are mostly guarded by armed security or LEO. The schools are not.

The incidence of armed attacks in the courts and other government buildings went down. The rate of armed attacks on schools went way up.

The schools before this legislation had no problem with shooters killing our children. After these laws were put in place we have had way too many cases of our children being murdered while at school.

When you take these facts into account it is very easy to see what we did with the laws did not work as intended. Exactly the opposite happened.

Hiding your head in the sand and ignoring the facts does not protect our children. These no gun zones at the schools have not protected our children. These laws have just made it safer for deranged people to come and kill as many kids as they can before they take their own lives.

laws are nothing more than words on paper that people are supposed to obey. When mentally deranged people choose not to obey those laws there is nothing to protect our children.

What we have done has not worked and these dead kids are huge proof of it. We need to do something else.

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