Leftist insanity: Gun free zones edition

The left's beliefs are generally based on lies, fiction, or bias so it's not surprising that they think that declaring a zone to be "gun free" will actually reduce gun crimes.

For the idea of a "gun free" zone to work it would be necessary that legal, licensed gun owners regularly just started shooting things up.  Otherwise if we don't assume that's the case we have to assume that people who plan to use a gun to murder or rob will be deterred because they would have to break the law forbidding guns in the area.

Now that's crazy.  Apparently the left thinks that criminals who are about to murder or commit armed robbery will be deterred by the thought of breaking a law about illegally having a gun.

Given that 90% of criminals obtain their guns illegally it's pretty clear that they're not too concerned about gun control laws much less gun free zone laws.

To see the obvious problem with "gun free" zones let's look at the options.

One of two things will be true; a person brings a gun into the zone with the intent of using it or the person brings it into the zone with no intention of using it.

In the former case it's clear that a sign won't deter them.

In the later case we have clear evidence that honest gun owners aren't likely to just start randomly shooting so the "gun free" zone in no way reduces the chances of a crime being committed.

But it's worse than that.  If a criminal is going to use a gun in area that he doesn't know is gun free he knows that he could be facing armed victims.  Hence "gun free" zones essentially are inviting criminals by ensuring them that they won't face any resistance.

If someone has a gun in a "gun free" zone how will it be detected.  Once again there are two options either the gun will be detected when it's being used in a crime or it will be detected when it's still being carried.

Clearly if it's only spotted when it's being used the "gun free" sign did no good.

Now if there was evidence that criminals were unable to conceal their guns and they could be caught prior to their actually using the gun that could be an argument for "gun free" zones.

The problem is that it's easy to conceal a weapon and even if it wasn't most "gun free" zones aren't protected by armed guards who could safely secure a gun that is spotted. Instead if some teacher for example spots a guy with a gun what would most likely happen is that the loon would start shooting earlier.

The simple reality is that "gun free" zones really means "places where people can't defend themselves so they're easy targets" zones.