Barely before the blood of the innocent victims was dry on the theater floor, liberals were calling for tighter gun control laws. They always do this because many of them believe a sign restricting firearms in a place will actually prevent someone from using a firearm. This is tantamount to believe a “no swimming” sign will keep a bunch of ten year-olds from jumping into a pond on a hot summer day…but with deadlier consequences. Such signs are only as good as the reader’s respect for law and the ability of the person placing the sign to enforce it. For example, a speed limit sign telling you to drive 65 miles per hour is placed by people who believe law abiding drivers will obey it. If people don’t obey the speed limit, law enforcement officers are usually around too pull over those who disobey the limit as a close friend of mine recently discovered.
Back to Aurora. A printed sign (the one at the theater prohibiting firearms) will never deter a deranged mind. Those who post such signs just don't get it! In fact, the prohibition of a trained person with a concealed carry permit and a weapon, may have unwittingly contributed to this carnage. Any demented person capable of reading can readily analyze that people who obey such signs contribute a target rich environment.
Futhermore, if you tell me I cannot bring in a legal firearm with a concealed carry permit into your business, could you be preventing me from protecting myself...if you don't have personnel available to protect me? That is the question these families should be discussing with their lawyers. Does a business which does not allow you to bring a weapon somehow assume the responsibility to protect you? Maybe they should add “enter at your own risk” to their gun prohibition signs. Watch as the theater agencies give money for medical expenses to the families to keep them from asking this series of questions. Just as I expect the food to be safe when I eat at a restaurant, I also expect a safe environment when I go to a movie that disallows concealed carry. I differ with the liberals because I believe “an armed society is a polite society.”
I believe that if someone trained and with a concealed carry permit and a weapon had been at the theater, fewer people would have been killed or injured. The reason I say this is that such murderers as James Holmes usually run when confronted. Just look at the old man who sent two would be robbers fleeing in Ocala, Florida a few days before this tragic event. The Florida event could have been just as deadly had it not been for the man with the gun and the concealed carry permit. You may argue with me but if you would be honest, you know that I am right.
Let's continue to pray for the families of those killed and injured. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time with what I believe was a terrible policy by the theater owners.
