Posted on 08/25/2014 8:22:21 AM PDT by marktwain
During the last media push for laws to disarm the population, NRA executive VP Wayne LaPierre said that a good guy with a gun is what is needed to stop a bad guy with a gun. A recent shooting outside the Harry Stone Montessori school in Dallas is a perfect illustration of his point.
In this case, an armed citizen was present. He happened to be an off duty police officer. The "Gun Free School Zone" law would have worked perfectly to assure the attacker of an unarmed victim if the legally armed citizen had not been there. From wfaa.com:
Dallas Police Deputy Chief Gil Garza said in a news conference the officer was out of uniform and headed to a family function when he saw an altercation. A woman was stopped at an intersection when another car, driven by the suspect, pulled up alongside her. Words were exchanged between the two, then the suspect fired multiple shots into the victim's vehicle.Gun free school zone laws have been a complete disaster. Mass shootings inside schools have increased four-fold since the laws were passed. This shooting may not have any more connection to a school than the location; however, it does illustrate the insanity of "gun free zones".
The officer witnessed the shooting, got out of his vehicle, and intervened before he shot the suspect.
I thought that law was invalidated.
The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in U.S. v. Lopez, as outside of the Commerce Clause.
President Clinton pushed a nearly identical law through with considerable help by the old media, changing the law to claim that it was valid under the interstate commerce clause.
The 1995 law has not been challenged in court, to my knowledge.
Not without a state-issued concealed-carry permit, that is.
The federal allow allows you to carry if you are licensed in that state.
If you are licensed in one state but travel to another state that recognizes your CC permit, you are violating the law if you travel through a school zone in that other state.
How does that law apply to transporting long guns on a public road that runs within 1000’ of a school?
I know plenty of schools backing up to Interstate highways where the buildings are within a few hundred feet of the interstate right-of-way, and there are countless others that are within 1000’ of heavily traveled thoroughfares.
There is an exception in the law for guns that are unloaded and cased or in the trunk, as I recall. I would have to look up the exact language.
The whole law should be ruled unconstitutional.
To claim that guns within 1000 feet of a school comes under federal power by the interstate commerce clause is to claim that everything comes under the commerce clause. This is a logical absurdity, because if everything comes under the interstate commerce clause, why have an interstate commerce clause? It would have been much more logical and reasonable just to write: The congress shall have the power to regulate all transactions. No one would have voted for such an enormous grant of federal power.
But that is the insane reach that “progressive” courts have granted the federal government under the interstate commerce clause.
Yes, you then have government permission.
in commierado you can conceal carry IN YOUR CAR on school property. if you get OUT of your car in the school parking lot you are violating the law. if you get out to lock your weapon in the trunk you just broke the law.
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