Today’s shooting at a Navy Yard in Washington DC constitutes yet another to have taken place within a gun free zone. With several people dead and more injured, questions over the disarming of citizens are once again sure to be raised.
As is the case at most military bases, personnel are forbidden from carrying their own personal firearms. Under a ruling enacted by The Clinton Administration, there must be “a credible and specific threat against [Department of the Army] personnel [exist] in that region” before military personnel “may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection.”
This was the reason that the Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan was able to go on a rampage for a full ten minutes in 2009, without being stopped.
It's true that most mass shootings happen in gun-free zones, but the suggestion that deranged shooters choose those places for their gun-free status is false. These killers usually go to the place of their grievance. In some cases they go there because the aliens who live in the attic told them to.
The Loughner shooting proves this desperate theory wrong. Not only did he choose a venue that was not a gun-free zone, he killed with impunity until he ran out of bullets and was stopped by an unarmed bystander.
