It seems that school shootings are becoming more and more common place. A sad fact indeed.
I’d like to say this kind of thing doesn’t happen here in Canada, but it seems to happen quite regularly here too.
It appears that a 14 year old male student has allegedly opened fire on his fellow classmates at Success Tech High School in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
At this time it appears that four people have been wounded. Two of the wounded are said to be teachers.
As always, the anti-gun crowd will try to make political hay over this, with help from their allies in the media, while an uninformed public remains unaware that the only places these things happen is in GUN FREE ZONES (meaning, there are no citizens there legally carrying their guns for protection). There are actually instances of law abiding citizens running to their vehicles, getting their guns and stopping these rampages before they get carried away.
Does anyone not see the correlation between the “Schools are Gun Free Zones” laws passed in the 1990s, and the increase in these events? Correlation doesn’t always equal causation, but I’m just sayin’.
eaglehawk yes it’s just terrible what’s happened. I wish schools could find some way of preventing tragedies like this from happening.
Randy while what you said might be true in the US where citizens have a right to bear arms that’s not so here in Canada. The only people that legally have guns in their possession here in Canada are law enforcement or those who register to have guns for uses like hunting and there’s strict laws as to how these guns and their ammunition must be stored in the home.
So that means that most cities and neighborhoods truly are gun free zones. I don’t know anyone here in Toronto that owns a gun and I know a LOT of people.
Yet the incidence of school shootings has gone up just like it has in the US. Obviously the kids here that perpetrate these crimes are either getting a hold of illegal guns or stealing them from their relatives who are registered gun owners.
So if a school shooting were to occur in my neighborhood for example (oh wait one has …) it’s not like anyone in a home near the school could run out with their own gun to try to stop the shooter. Which I believe is the point you were trying to make.
That’s true Tricia, and that’s the problem… When you make “gun free zones”, people are left without a way to defend themselves… because a criminal isn’t going to abide by gun laws in the first place, which is why it’s always kind of funny to hear the anti-gun folks make a big stink over these school shootings, when there were laws banning guns where they took place to begin with.
The saying goes, if you outlaw guns, the only ones left with guns are outlaws. And that’s exactly what happens in all of these mass shootings. I’m not ready to fully subscribe to the “an armed society, is a polite society” way of thinking, but it makes sense.
Like you said, it’s pretty much a total “gun free zone” up there… but people still have them right? You can make all the gun laws you want, but that just makes it tougher and tougher for law abiding citizens to protect themselves, because criminals will always find a way to get guns.
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Thanks for the post, I must have shut down today, I forgot to turn on the radio so i hadn’t heard any news..