The Difference Between Gun-Free and Gun-Friendly States
Well, here's a useful smartphone app: it allows users to “report and find Gun-Free or Gun-Friendly Zones throughout the United States" (1). Sadly, New Jersey, where I live, is entirely a Gun-Free Zone. I say sadly because I believe that designating schools as "Gun-Free Zones" only makes the students sitting ducks for disturbed individuals (2).
Some of my readers may recall my article Meat Cleavers, Hammers, and Knives Need to Be Banned in China where I reported that even if a disturbed individual cannot get a gun, children are still at peril because the teachers are not armed as they are in Israel.
But here is the real difference between Gun-Free and Gun-Friendly States:
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ENDNOTES
(1):
Guns.com, 13 May 2013, Gun Free Zone App to Identify Gun-friendly Businesses: Good or bad idea? (VIDEO)
As you can tell by the title of this article, I am referring to the ‘Gun Free Zone‘ app, which allows users to identify and/or report whether businesses in their areas are gun free or gun friendly via their smartphones.
It’s an ingenious idea for two reasons: (a) it’s apolitical, meaning both pro-gun and pro-gun control activists can use it and (b) it promotes a consumer-based, free-market type activism.
(2):
FoxNews, 18 Jun 2015, Gun-free zones an easy target for killers
The horrible tragedy last night that left nine people dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., probably could have been avoided. Like so many other attacks, the massacre took place in a gun-free zone, a place where the general public was banned from having guns. The gun-free zone obviously didn’t stop the killer from bringing a gun into the church.
Indeed, the circumstantial evidence is strong that these killers don’t attack randomly; they keep picking the few gun-free zones to do virtually all their attacks.
