12-04-2016, 02:38 PM
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Quote:Trump’s view that gun free zones invite attacks is an echo of a talking point popularized by the National Rifle Association after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. In the wake of that massacre, the group called for lifting restrictions barring firearms in public schools and other places where they are banned. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” the organization’s chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, intoned. In the years since, the NRA has successfully backed efforts to lift restrictions on carrying guns in bars and churches in Georgia, carrying firearms without a permit in a purse or bag in Mississippi, and leaving them locked in cars in Florida and Tennesseeresearch on rampage shootings shows gunmen rarely target gun-free zones - Business Insider
The study draws from research conducted by one of its authors, Louis Klarevas, who in his book, Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings , examined 111 shootings between 1966 to 2015 that left six or more people dead. Of these gun massacres, 93 occurred in gun-allowing zones, or places where there is no evidence that civilian guns are banned. Klarevas’s research also found that armed civilians almost never prevent or stop rampage attacks — no matter where they occur.