I'll answer it.
Yeah and I leave my hammer outside on the porch overnight sometimes, so you going to do that with your gun?
What is a hammer designed to do? What is a gun designed to do? World of difference.
I have a stethoscope. It's a tool I use for my job. I also have a radio that I use at work. Unless someone is riding in my front seat, that's where they sit. In theory, I should be able to leave my pistol sitting right there next to them, if for some unknown reason, I took it out of its holster. The demand for the pistol is higher, however, so it's more likely to result in a broken window and a missing gun (or any other valuables). This is a direct result of the limitation imposed by the GCA 1968. If people could still walk in to Ace Hardware or even Sears, throw some green on the counter and walk out with a pistol, (no prints, pictures, or phone calls needed) we would not see the demand we see that makes crime a better option.
Would I leave my pistol on the porch overnight? No. What the hammer and the gun are designed to do is irrelevant. Both can and have been used to cause the end of someone's life. (A quick search brought up over two million hits on "killed with a hammer") 88GT is right. There's nothing special about a gun, even on school grounds. Nothing about the school grounds makes it either good or bad merely by its presence there, and if it's in the car, the only thing is the demand for it making the car a target for a robbery.
Gun on school grounds: malum prohibitum.
Gun pointed at your face: malum in se.
One is bad only because someone said "not allowed." The other is bad in and of itself.
Blessings,
Bill
