The New American
Gun-free zones are invitations to mass murder, gun-rights advocates
argued after a lone gunman's shooting rampage at the Sandy Hook
elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Friday left 20 children and
six adults dead. John Lott, author of the controversial 1999 bestseller More Guns, Less Crime, said in an interview with
Newsmax.com Saturday it is no coincidence that mass shootings with
multiple victims occur repeatedly in designated gun-free zones such as
schools, shopping malls, and movie theaters.
"The problem is, whether it is the Portland [Oregon] shooting earlier
this week, or the Connecticut shooting Friday, or the Sikh temple
attack in Wisconsin, time after time these attacks take place in the few
areas within a state where permit-concealed handguns are banned," Lott
said. "It's not just this year, it's all these years in the past. And at
some point people have to recognize that despite the obvious desire to
make places safe by banning guns, it unintentionally has the opposite
effect."
The effect, said Lott, is to encourage a killer to believe it will be
easier to commit the mayhem he has in mind in an environment where no
one will be able to shoot back.-[Full Article]
