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Monday, December 10, 2007

Do Gun Free Zones Create A Legal Liability?

From Captain's Quarters:
Not being a lawyer, this question will exist more as a philosophical one, much as we treated it on Saturday's Northern Alliance broadcast. Mitch Berg and I debated the efficacy of gun-free zones in the wake of the Omaha mall shooting that left nine people dead, but before the two shootings at New Life church facilities that left eight dead. In at least the first shooting, the perpetrator conducted his murder spree in a commercial facility whose owners had marked it as a gun-free zone, a designation that keeps concealed-carry licensees from bringing their weapons into the building. We both wondered if that decision opened the owners to legal liability for forcing people to disarm themselves without having enough security to protect them.

It's a question that will be litigated.

From Instapundit:
SOMETHING ON THE COLORADO SHOOTINGS that I hadn't heard. The gunman was stopped by an armed woman.
Remember:
People don't stop killers. People with guns do.

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