Yesterday, a local tragedy made national headlines. I had many friends and acquaintances that knew where I live, but not enough to know if I lived in the immediate area of the tragedy message me asking if I or my family are okay. What's going on? Did I know more than what was being shared on the national news?
This tragedy was an officer being shot while trying to serve an arrest warrant. The gentleman they were trying to arrest had a long history of criminal activity: traffic violations, aggravated battery, burglary, endangering the life of a child. He had been in and out of jail. He is exactly the type of person gun control laws are supposed to keep guns away from, but yet he had a gun, he shot and killed a law enforcement officer and today it was disclosed the hotel room he was in had multiple weapons.
The truth is that no one seems to want to acknowledge, especially those that push for more gun control, is that those that want to do harm do not care what the laws are! They are going to do harm, they are going to own guns, they are going to do what they want to do.
Gun control laws just like gun free zones only keep law-abiding citizens gun free and only keep law-abiding citizens from taking guns where they do not belong. Think of all the recent mass shootings they all take place in gun free zones. Movie Theaters, Schools, Gun Free Zone on military bases. (I will never understand why there are gun free zones on our military bases).
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photo credit: Christian Lundh
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