The latest buzz word of the anti-gun is the creation so so-called “Gun free Zones.” Thus, according especially to our police, gun free zones ought to be established in certain areas such as malls, resorts, schools, and similar places, to eliminate the possibiity of violence and crime.
Are so-called areas that are declared as gun free zones really crime free? No.
As we have seen in recent events in the U.S. there appears to be no such thing as a Crime Free Zone. Schools such as Virginia Tech and Columbine High School have been examples of so-called gun free zones which were violated by the criminals with impunity. Even military camps like Fort Hood, a declared gun free zone even for the soldiers who were training there, got a nasty lesson in security when their very own US Army Major Hassan gunned down 13 people there.
Courts, in particular have alarmingly become the venues of horrific criminal acts. We recall the detention prisoner who produced an icepick and attacked the judge and held a stenographer hostage in Branch 88 of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court before he was disarmed by a prosecutor who happened to be armed with a Glock 26. In Las Pinas Branch 199, a family court, a disgruntled husband suddenly appeared in court and shot and killed his wife and her lawyer. And In Taguig, an angry litigant who wielded a hand grenade, held the netire branch of the court hostage before being subdued by a rescuing SWAT team.
Malls have likewise been placed on the violence list recently with the broad dailight robbery of the Rolex Store in Fashionable Greenbelt 6. And previously, there was the Banco De Oro hold-up in SM Mega Mall.
In spite of the best of intentions, it is clear that gun free zones are gun free only for legitimate citizens, but not for the criminals. In at least one of those mentioned cases, a tragedy was averted when a single armed citizen who was present during the incident, was armed and presented his gun resulting in the desistance of the criminal without any bloodshed.
Let’s not deceive ourselves. Clearly, there is no place on this earth which is totally, and truly crime free. Consequently, there should be no such places as “gun free zones.”
Do they don’t get it…what will it takes for them to believe that guns do saves lives…
…is better than a thousand words.
A gun, in order to be effective, should be with you at all times, ideally. That means that at the precise moment that you need it, it must be there. Leaving your gun at home or in your car will not be of any help when a deranged madman breaks into your office or a restaurant where you are eating, shooting everyone in sight.
Gun-Free Zone equals to HELPLESS OR DEFENSELESS CIVILIANS for CRIMINALS as well…. Dapat pati POLICE and Politician-Escort should be DISARMED when they go there too para equal footing tayo sa kanila…..Let us see kung sino unang TARGET ng mga Criminals and NPA Assassins….
Criminals will definitely celebrate and do more jobs in GUN FREE ZONES! put yourself in a criminal mindset, it’s simply like posting that your shop is in a 100% SALE!!!
ROBBERS/THIEVES/RAPISTS/DRUG ADDICTS ARE WELCOME HERE!!! The rich and the wealthy wold have to move somewhere else.
“Malls have likewise been placed on the violence list recently with the borad dailight robbery of the Rolex Store in Fashionable Greenbelt 6. ” — I think it should be Greenbelt 5? 😉