Gun Laws Kill

I have just heard that the University had recently imposed a gun ban on the campus. There has also been a report of a professor who blocked the door to his classroom while his students escaped through the window.

Suppose this professor had been carrying a gun. How many lives would have been saved? All Americans should be outraged at the fact that there were no armed citizens on this campus who might have taken out the perpetrator before he had completed his spree. Since most schools and college campuses now ban all guns, anyone who gets it into his head to kill a bunch of people knows that the safest place he can go to do his killing is a school. He knows that there will be no one who can shoot back. Just like the incident at VA Tech yesterday, he can move from room to room, even building to building shooting people at will and no one will be able to shoot back. Here are a few more links to a discussion on this topic: - http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/012716.html - http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/012715.html#more - http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott14.html - http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/012723.html The third reference talks about an incident on the campus of Appalachian Law School in Virginia in 2002. A gunman was going around the campus shooting people until he was stopped by two armed students. Of course, new media reports of the incident failed to mention that the students who stopped the attack were armed. The truth that the new media consistently ignore is that guns are used something like 2 million times a year to STOP crimes in progress. Many of these incidents do not even require firing a shot. Many times a criminal will be stopped by simply having a gun pointed in his direction. Most criminals are cowards, their guns are what give them courage to commit their crimes. When confronted with return fire, they often either surrender or flee. The answer is to restore the Constitutional right "to keep and bear arms."