By Jeff Riley

"There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking the law. Create a nation of lawbreakers and then you can cash in on the guilt. Now that’s the system!”

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Most gun owners are somewhat familiar with laws regulating firearms. Every person who has purchased a firearm through a Federally Licensed Firearm Dealer has filled out a BATFE 4473 form and has been submitted to a NICS background check. Part of that check is to verify that you are not a prohibited person, one who is legally not allowed to purchase, own, or possess a firearm. From the Gun Control Act of 1968, Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 44, and amended throughout the years a prohibited person is in part:

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Another Mall stakes out its territory as a Victim Disarmament Zone.

By John Longenecker

Nine dead thanks to a micro gun ban policy. A gun ban. As a former full-time Paramedic, I can tell you that you can't get mad at the police for their response time -- I'm only showing it as part of the total understanding of the incident in reasonable expectation. The Gun Ban is to blame, and no one else.

Bans on school campus and in Malls, workplace and other locales are nothing but micro gun bans with tragic results every bit as gigantic and as heart-breaking as any other shooting. Typical policy has been the same as stubborn school campus policy and workplace, saying they want to protect their patrons, but the result is to talk patrons out of their lives. Nine dead for this kind of brilliance. In less than six minutes. Nine dead thanks to a gun ban. This is what we call Lip Service, where the results so obviously discredit the excuses.

Public places need to understand that individuals bent on murder will not listen to their gun ban. They never do and they never will. Murderers do notice where a target-rich environment is unarmed and unable to stop them in the few moments they need to kill. The few short moments they need is a lot less than six minutes.

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