[quote]According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, from the 1950's through June 15th of 2018, 97.8 percent of mass shootings have occurred on gun-free zones, with just 2.2 percent occurring where citizens are allowed to have firearms with them.[/quote] Sure, you arent likely to be -blam!-, or mugged, or assaulted in a crowded public place, like a movie theater, or a shopping mall, or an administration building, or a school. That's not where those types of crimes usually happen so it might seem appealing to make it a rule that nobody can have a gun in those places, right? Except heres the problem. The vast majority of the time when we declare a place a "gun free zone" we do nothing, [u]nothing[/u] to actually stop somebody from bringing a gun there. We just tell everyone they will be prosecuted (or lose their job, if they're employed there) if they get caught doing so. Sandy Hook was a gun free zone under state and federal law. But guess what? Nothing physically stopped him from bringing a gun into that school anyway. The Aurora Colorado movie theater was a "gun free zone" and guess what, nothing physically stopped him from bringing a gun anyway. The latest mass shooting, happened in a building where civilians [i]could technically, legally have a gun[/i], it was an administrative building and therefore no civilians would have a reason to be there unless they were employees and... employees were not allowed to have weapons so... gun free zone. In fact, pretty damn close to [u]all[/u] mass shootings have happened in "gun free zones". These people, who are often mentally ill, or motivated by religious extremism, or just "regular" homicidal degenerates, don't give a single iota of damn about the possibility of being fined, going to jail for a few years, getting fired, or getting a write up that could damage their career. The people who [i]do [/i] give a shit, are the people like you and me who [i]care[/i] about their careers, and would rather avoid jail or fines. THOSE people arent the ones you should worry about. If you think planting an invisible line around a public place and saying "no guns allowed" does anything to make the place safer heres what I want you to do. Take a lunch box, or a backpack, and think about any place you could bring it, without someone actually making even the slightest effort to check its contents. See, pretty much any handgun will fit in a lunchbox or backpack and even some long guns will fit in a backpack. Really think about it. Where could you bring that without being screened? A mall? A restaurant? Work? The answer is: [spoiler]almost anywhere.[/spoiler] Heres an idea: if a place wants to be a "gun free zone" they should be forced to actually provide [i]meaningful[/i] security for that place. Simply slapping a "no guns" sticker on a window and calling it good should no longer be acceptable. Breakdown of the issue. Most mass shootings happen in gun free zones. [spoiler]https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/09/over-98-of-mass-shootings-occurred-on-gun-free-zones-research-shows[/spoiler] "BbBuT tHe BlAzE iS BiAsEd ReEe" Go ahead and tell me how the crime prevention research center they are citing for the central premise of the article is "biased" and how that "bias" tainted their findings or your argument is invalid. [spoiler]https://crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings/[/spoiler]