MO/KY School Shootings

[jiggypete]

I just saw these two stories about school shootings in Missouri and Kentucky today. Obviously those are gun free zones. So, I've been pondering, does this strengthen the anti-gun argument or add further strength to the nonsense of gun free zones? On one hand the victims were minimal (not to minimize the lives lost), so there goes the high capacity magazines and "assault" weapons that criminals use. On the other, it adds credence to the argument that a Law abiding, licensed, gun owner in a gun free zone might have prevented either of these incidents. We all know how the media and politicians will play this one!

2 killed, 1 injured in Ky. college shooting - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Gunman allegedly shoots administrator, himself at St. Louis college | Fox News

 

[msr]

This is a tricky one to answer. In a rationally thinking society, it would add strength to getting rid of GFZs, but in the society we live in today, it will be picked up by a media and sensationalized to induce an emotional reaction to "evil" guns, which will fuel the anti-gun mentality.

 

[No2rdame]

Exactly. While a rational person would see the logic in having more legally carrying citizens and the abolition of gun free zones, the media will spin it so that it supports their agenda of convincing the masses that guns in general are bad and we should all surrender them immediately.

 

[88GT]

Police: Deadly Hazard campus shooting was domestic situation

KY shooting seems to be everyday criminal act spilling over onto campus.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

College campuses are not gun free zones in Kentucky. Their state law prohibits carry in elementary and secondary schools, but not colleges and universities.

Colleges are free to have rules that prohibit them, but even then they can't prohibit them from being in cars on campus per the Kentucky Supreme Court.