Finally saw one of thse gun free signs in my city. It's not in a very safe area of the city. But my town has made alot of good intention laws that tends to backfire.
And to be honest Kimba, most legislation is "well intentioned", but not well thought out, because too much emotion is built into passing the legislation vs determining if the legislation is even appropriate or targets the acts that generated the emotional charge
For instance, we keep hearing about the supposed "gun show loophole", that needs closed. Did you know Connecticut closed that loophole. Many states have. Did you also know that the % of crimes committed by guns that were purchased at a gun show is somewhere around 2%?
Did you know, as a civilian, it's illegal to purchase an automatic assault rifle, without a special license thru the ATF, yet you keep hearing about renewing the "assault weapons ban", as if anyone could go to the local Wall Mart and purchase a fully automatic military assault rifle.
All these cries for more gun laws would have done nothing to stop this pathologic kid. Not even banning guns would have stopped it, if as Bsb was referencing, he could have apparently aquired them on the blackmarket, if he had "snapped" that bad. So, we, as in a society, need to focus on how to identify these mentally fragile/broken folks. If they can be identified and diagnosed, THEN we can attempt to limit any access to firearms.....to them specifically. But passing asinine legislation, like higher taxes on ammo does squat to keep bad guys from getting ammo, just makes it harder for the rest of us to better defend ourselves
