Right now we need to leave rights out of the discussion, and speak strictly about the facts.
The FACT is that the children's blood is on the hands of the anti-gunners and legislators who support this type of legislation! This leaves our children defenseless, and they asked for it!
The fact is that Congress passed the FGFSZ because it was deemed necessary to stop gun-violence in schools; the truth is that gun-violence in schools has drastically increased since the inception of this law. The arguments for the law have been proven baseless and plain wrong! This law has the opposite effect than what was intended.
We need for people to look at the facts and statistics, and we also need to challenge the effectiveness and constitutionality of this statute in the system. This law has NOT accomplished what Congress has stated it would in the statute itself (18 USC 922). This law is stripping our educators and children of their right to life and liberty. This law is killing people!
The Federal Government has no business restricting the Second Amendment in any way, especially not in a way that is harmful to the public and our children, which the FGFSZ certainly is.
Here is why Congress passed this into law, and I believe we all realize how all of these claims are absurd:
(1)The Congress finds and declares that—
(A)crime, particularly crime involving drugs and guns, is a pervasive, nationwide problem;
(B)crime at the local level is exacerbated by the interstate movement of drugs, guns, and criminal gangs;
(C)firearms and ammunition move easily in interstate commerce and have been found in increasing numbers in and around schools, as documented in numerous hearings in both the Committee on the Judiciary [3] the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
(D)in fact, even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce;
(E)while criminals freely move from State to State, ordinary citizens and foreign visitors may fear to travel to or through certain parts of the country due to concern about violent crime and gun violence, and parents may decline to send their children to school for the same reason;
(F)the occurrence of violent crime in school zones has resulted in a decline in the quality of education in our country;
(G)this decline in the quality of education has an adverse impact on interstate commerce and the foreign commerce of the United States;
(H)States, localities, and school systems find it almost impossible to handle gun-related crime by themselves—even States, localities, and school systems that have made strong efforts to prevent, detect, and punish gun-related crime find their efforts unavailing due in part to the failure or inability of other States or localities to take strong measures; and
(I)the Congress has the power, under the interstate commerce clause and other provisions of the Constitution, to enact measures to ensure the integrity and safety of the Nation’s schools by enactment of this subsection.
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They claim that state's cannot control gun-violence, education is poor because of guns, crime involving guns is a serious problem, and on and on.
Gun-violence has steadily dropped over the past years, so this claim cannot be verified, as the "serious problem" is really not a problem when compared with other criminal acts. Look at the numbers.
They say state's cannot control gun-violence. This is absurd! The only states that have problems controlling gun-violence are the ones that heavily restrict law-abiding citizens' right to keep and bear firearms. New York City, Chicago and Washington D.C. are responsible for nearly 20% of the entire country's murders. I believe this speaks for itself.
They claim education is becoming inadequate because of guns! This is ridiculous! This statute has allowed gun-violence in K-12 schools to heavily increase because nobody is able to defend themselves. This along with state laws across the country have made K-12 schools killing fields where a shooter knows he will be facing unarmed human targets!
When a statute claims to accomplish one thing and leads to the exact opposite happening it needs to be revisited!
I am tired of our children dying because the government wants to restrict law-abiding citizens right to keep and bear firearms!
The liberal's don't care about the actual violence, they just care about pushing their agenda! One of the biggest liberals in the country proudly said "You never want a serious crisis to go to WASTE!" This is their mentality! They know they cannot convince the American populace to agree with their radical agenda when they are thinking clearly, so they work on their raw emotion immediately after a violent, tragic incident! This is shameful and pathetic!
Bottom line is the FGFSZ has allowed school gun-violence to DRASTICALLY increase by making all victims unarmed and defenseless! We need to recind this statute and the Kentucky statute immediately, so our children don't have to depend on the police who are minutes away and usually won't enter until a SWAT team has been called to the scene! They should be given the respect and care they deserve, and they should know someone is close that is capable of defending them against these tragic incidents! Until these GFZ laws are rescinded they will continue to be easy targets for psychopaths bent on killing them, and that is ridiculously insidious!