Post by Christa on Apr 25, 2009 14:25:31 GMT -5
Fact: The five school shootings which occurred during the '97-98 school
year took place after the 1995 Gun-Free School Zones law was enacted,
banning guns (including lawfully possessed concealed handguns) within
1,000 feet of a school
Fact: In the school shooting in Pearl, Mississippi, the assistant principal
had formerly carried a firearm to school. When the 1995 "Gun-Free
School Zones" law passed, he began locking his firearm in his car and
parking it at least a quarter-mile away from the school. When that shooting
incident started he ran to his car, unlocked it, got his gun, ran back,
disarmed the shooter and held him on the ground for five minutes until the
police arrived. Had the law not been passed, the assistant principal might
have prevented the two deaths and seven shooting related injuries.
Fact: Firearms in private hands are used 2.5 million times each year to prevent crime, or 6,849 times every day, including rapes, aggravated assaults, and kidnapping. The number of
innocent children protected by firearm owning parents far outweighs the number hurt by guns.
More at: www.keepandbeararms.com/downloads/gunfacts_v3.2.pdf
