Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: Panzerman
What aggrevates me is when I see a gun free zone, so in essence they are dis-arming me, if I want to attend the event. They provide no security from the event to the car. Ussually they provide lack-luster security in the event. My daughter is 14, she likes to run, I recently bought her pepper spray, I think this is a poor alternative. I would like her to carry a gun. I would feel better. I feel they force us into dangerous positions. Thier position of safety, actually causes us more vulerability.
This is like a car on the pedestrian lane / on the curb argument.
There is a curb that's for pedestrians, and you are worried that someone else may drive on it and you'll get run over. So you decided that you want to drive on it with an SUV just in case you got hit. Well now there really is an SUV on it and other pedestrians end up being more dangerous.
Gun free zone protects you from criminals and psycho if they are implemented right with armed security on the outside, metal detector, etc. There are incidents of not just armed criminals but also emotionally charged people (esp teenagers who are not mentally mature to think about consequences, therefore are charged as minor for stupid acts like thieves and vandalism) firing their weapons and got people killed. We hear a lot of that in the news about gun shots in house parties (with alcohol and drugs) killing a guest, mostly high school and college students.
The problem is an improperly implemented gun free zone, not the gun free policy itself.
Ok, here is the problem I was recently faced with. I went to a event is a gun free stadium, it had metal detectors and people searching yor bags upon entry. problem is most of these stadiums are built pretty much in the middle of the Hood(Citrus Bow, for example). The problem comes when I come out of the stadium, at midnight and now have to walk a mile to my car in a very un-savory part of town. My reason for my first and last trip to the Citrus Bowl.