Gun Free School Zones Talking Points

Bloomfield Press

Gun-Free School Zones • TALKING POINTS

Aside from the unsavory contempt this law shows for the traditional American right to keep and bear arms, it creates a situation where the right to arms is effectively banned in populated areas. This is simply unacceptable and must be fixed. The needed amendment deletes 18 words from a legal definition, see it here. Guns will still be banned from school grounds under this amendment.

• We have here a textbook example of a bad law, a feel-good law, with no crime fighting component, that never should have been passed in the first place

• Criminalizes the routine actions of half the population.

• Creates tens of millions of five-year federal crimes daily—
with no actual crime committed, only paper offense

• Utterly unenforceable, never intended to be enforced

• Shows the lengths some in Congress will go for effect without substance;
an embarrassment to those who sponsored it

• Violates the rights all Americans have, and thus violative of congressional oath

• Disrespectful of the honorable role of firearms in modern life and our heritage

• Ignores the basic human right to self defense, and the Bill of Rights

• Nowhere is Congress delegated authority to enact such local laws.

• Overturned by the Supreme Court for unconstitutional use of Commerce Clause,
The Lopez case, 1995; subsequently reenacted, 1996; it remains a painful example of federal encroachment on states’ rights.

Such an egregious affront to rights Americans hold dear needs more than correction, it urges positive action in the recognition and defense of this fundamental civil right. The gun-owning public is aware that Republicans have taken virtually no direct steps to secure individual people’s rights against infringements that grow daily. This unacceptable law is the poster child for improvement to that policy.

Discrimination against people who exercise their Second Amendment rights should be weeded out as vigorously as any other civil rights offense. Bigotry, foul language and intolerance directed at people who exercise their rights to arms should earn the same rebuke as any racist, sexist or other offense behavior. Training not fear; familiarity not avoidance; historical significance not media-driven doom-and-gloom, gun safety not gun bans, education not ignorance. Unalienable rights.