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maxrandb

(15,320 posts)
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 06:10 PM Oct 2015

If a "No Fly Zone" is OK

then why do I keep hearing folks having a hard time with "Gun Free Zones"?

If regulations and additional restrictions won't help prevent "stuff happening", how will Voter ID Laws "prevent" fraud?

If stricter gun laws won't help reduce mass shootings, why do we have seatbelt laws?

If more guns will make us all safer, why does giving more tax breaks to the wealthy make us all poorer?

and finally, if a 10 round magazine is too restrictive, what do you tell the mother whose 6 year old child was killed with bullet number 11?

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If a "No Fly Zone" is OK (Original Post) maxrandb Oct 2015 OP
No fly zones are enforced Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #1
Gun-free zones only work when strictly enforced. Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #2
 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
1. No fly zones are enforced
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 06:49 PM
Oct 2015

If the US puts up a new fly zone and has F16s on patrol its effective.

If instead, like no gun zones they put up one sign and nothing else, it wouldnt be too effective.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
2. Gun-free zones only work when strictly enforced.
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 06:54 PM
Oct 2015

The area of an airport on the far side of the TSA checkpoint is an effective gun-free zone because it's very hard for someone to violate it. Same for a courthouse. But just hanging a few signs on a property is just window dressing, just security theater. I don't have any objection to people doing that...but I don't pretend it makes anyone safer.

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