Each year, millions of people go to gun ranges and there are generally a few suicides. One gun range manager says he refuses service to customers because "it didn't feel right." (AP File Photo)
Lehigh Valley News
If there's one thing Ken LeVan has learned over the past 20 years, it's how to read people.
LeVan is manager of the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Officers Association's
Firing Line indoor shooting range in North Whitehall Township. The setup is similar to that of The Heritage Guild in Williams Township, where two 54-year-old men have used guns to commit suicide since April.
LeVan said he has had to refuse service to customers at The Firing Line, 4671 Egypt Road, on several occasions because "it didn't feel right." He recalled one situation in which a man appeared nervous, pacing back and forth.
"He was soaking wet from perspiration," he said.
He turned the man away, avoiding what could have been a bad situation, he said.
The gun range hasn't had any incidents in the 28 years it's been open.
Hmm. Millions of armed people visit shooting ranges in the United States every year. So there should be tens of thousands of robberies, rapes, murders, and suicides at gun ranges every year, right? Isn't that all the ingredients in the "gun violence" recipe ... people who possess firearms?
ReplyDeleteAnd yet I have not found a record of a single rape at a gun range, ever. Neither have I found a single record of an armed robbery at a gun range, ever. I finally found a single example where an armed patron at a gun range murdered two other patrons at a gun range. Beyond that, I have not found any other records of murders at a gun range. (There have a been a handful of negligent homicides at gun ranges, but I can only find one incident of a murder with malice aforethought, ever.)
I have found records of a few suicides at gun ranges. Those appear to be quite rare -- a few every year.
And yet "gun violence" is virtually nil at gun ranges. How is that possible if guns are the problem and gun ranges are awash in guns?
-- TruthBeTold