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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1343095" data-attributes="member: 14668">1. Minors do not have full Constitutional rights and never have. They cannot vote, they cannot own property or enter into legally binding contracts, they cannot drink alcohol, and they cannot buy or own guns. No rational person would suggest giving minors all of these rights and no rational person would suggest that giving guns to teenagers would make schools safer.&#039;2. Every single mass shooting that has occurred in a school or mall or theater has been premeditated. The shooter never intended to obey the laws that require these places to be &quot;gun free&quot; zones. The only people who did obey the law became unarmed victims of the criminals who didn&#039;t.3. Comparing drinking and driving to allowing guns in public places is a false analogy. An otherwise law-abiding person who drives under the influence is a danger to everyone around him on the road. A law-abiding person who carries a firearm is not.4. The people who cling to the fantasy of &quot;gun free zones&quot; as a solution have the false belief that the gun is responsible for murders when in fact the responsibility lies with the criminal who wields it. A gun is an inanimate object. Possession of a gun does not cause an otherwise law-abiding person to become a criminal. Those who break the laws against committing murder will also break the laws against being armed in &quot;gun free zones&quot;, causing those who obey the law to be helpless against them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1343095, member: 14668"] 1. Minors do not have full Constitutional rights and never have. They cannot vote, they cannot own property or enter into legally binding contracts, they cannot drink alcohol, and they cannot buy or own guns. No rational person would suggest giving minors all of these rights and no rational person would suggest that giving guns to teenagers would make schools safer. ' 2. Every single mass shooting that has occurred in a school or mall or theater has been [B]premeditated. [/B]The shooter [B]never intended [/B]to obey the laws that require these places to be "gun free" zones. The only people who [I]did [/I]obey the law became [I]unarmed victims [/I]of the criminals who didn't. 3. Comparing drinking and driving to allowing guns in public places is a false analogy. An otherwise law-abiding person who drives under the influence is a danger to everyone around him on the road. A law-abiding person who carries a firearm is not. 4. The people who cling to the fantasy of "gun free zones" as a solution have the false belief that the gun is responsible for murders when in fact the responsibility lies with the criminal who wields it. A gun is an [B]inanimate object. [/B]Possession of a gun does [I]not[/I] cause an otherwise law-abiding person to become a criminal. Those who break the laws against committing murder will also break the laws against being armed in "gun free zones", causing those who obey the law to be helpless against them. [/QUOTE]

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