I was planning on being done with the whole gun control bit, but the attack in Orlando kind of brought the topic back up. A terrorist attacked a club, killing or injuring over 100 people. It is a tragic event that will be talked about extensively I'm sure.
As I read about it two things jumped out at me. The first was that the shooting began three hours before the police stormed the building and killed the cowardly Islamist. I call him cowardly because of the second point. Being that he attacked a bunch of unarmed civilians in a gun free zone.
I am not going to second guess the police's decision to wait three hours to storm the building. I don't know enough to question their actions. However, given that it was three hours before the cavalry arrived the people in the club were on their own. If they wanted to be protected from what was the largest gun massacre in modern US history they would have had to have been armed themselves. For whatever reasons the police were not willing or able to protect the people in the club.
Because the people there we good law abiding citizens, at least with respect to gun laws, they were all unarmed and unable to protect themselves from the weak coward that attacked them. They died because of the dangerous gun laws of the state of Florida.
Gun free zones get people killed. Get guns into the hands of trained law abiding citizens and let them take them anywhere. Then you will get stories less like the Orlando tragedy and more like this story.
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