Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy View Post
There is a single glaring problem with this entire statement. Someone entering a "gun free zone" with the intention of committing a murder or armed robbery, isnt worried about the additional gun charge. If they plan on surviving the actual crime, which isnt often in a mass shooting, they are looking to avoid those MUCH stiffer penalties. Dont act like alarms start blaring the second someone enters a gun free zone with a gun, they have to advertise they have a gun before they get caught.
Nobody is actively seeking out these places because they're gun free zones, and no one acts like alarms start blaring when someone enters a gun free zone. The gun buffer zone isn't really aimed at mass murdering, sociopathic individuals anyway. Getting rid of them won't stop or propagate any kind of killing spree. They are in place, they aren't hurting anyone, and its a good idea they're there. They won't go away.

It's like back in high school when it was a cell phone free zone. You weren't allowed to have your cell phone on you. It's obvious cell phones are a good thing to have in case of emergency. No one was doing cellphone pat downs, but if you're on it acting like a jackass during school, they could take it from you or discipline you if they needed to, because the rule was in place. Its an arbitrary regulation so the proper authorities can control who has them and what you're doing with them.

Same thing with guns. They want to control in a sense who has them and who doesn't. No one is patting anyone down for guns (save for a nightclub or something, which is a different case entirely). If you keep it concealed and aren't acting like a self-important, i-can-do-whatever-i-want-cuz-im-a-goddamned-american kind of jackass (see those who carry AR's wherever they go), nobody has a problem.