The Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?”, said Dr. Ferris. We WANT them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against…. We’re after power and we mean it …. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, 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 laws. Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.” – Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
There was a segment on Fox News today about the gun free school zones act of 1990. It established 1000 foot zones around every school, where someone can be arrested by a federal officer if they have a gun. It carries a potential 5 year federal felony sentence, unless they have Big Brother’s specific permission to carry one, in the form of a concealed carry license. ( which some states don’t allow ) What that does, is shift the RKBA ( the universal individual inalienable human Right to Keep And Bear Arms ) from being a constitutionally recognized human right, into being something that you don’t have without written permission from the government to exercise it.
But the act also includes peoples’ homes if they live near schools, and their cars if they even drive past a school, so someone who lives 900 feet from a school is a federal criminal if they have a gun in their house. Someone who has a hunting gun or pistol in their car, which is traditionally considered someones mobile home for the purpose of gun laws, is a federal criminal if they drive within 1000 feet of a school, which isn’t at all hard to do. It’s simply absurd and outrageous.
On Fox news, they also showed some maps that illustrate the overlap from these zones. There are so many schools in many big cities that it makes the entire city virtually a gun free zone, and anyone who owns a gun, a federal criminal. Few people who live near, or drive by schools realize this.
Of course the proponent of the law on Fox News claimed this is just “too bad”, that we’ve already had the discussion years ago and that’s what democratic mob rule decided at the time, so live with it. But it’s just not right, to criminalize a right protected by the Bill of Rights to begin with, and do so in such a devious way that it makes criminals out of large segments of the population who have no criminal intent, but are just exercising their human right.
“…this particular right is threatened with misinterpretation to the point of meaninglessness… this is a far easier method of elimination than amendment, being much quicker and not requiring the same rigid consensus and forthright discussion of it’s constitutional relevancy.” – To Keep And Bear Arms, By Dr. Joyce Malcolm, Page 176
The Gun-Free School Zones Act should be repealed. At its very essence it’s useless and redundant, and like so many victimless “crime” laws, it makes criminals out of so many good people. Anyone who wants to commit a criminal act can walk into any school in this country and kill people. No law can stop that, but in Israel they found that the opposite approach worked best, they armed the teachers. That stopped school shootings there. Would you want people teaching your kids who wouldn’t keep and bear the means of protecting your children, or lift a finger to defend them if they were attacked? I wouldn’t.
The act should be repealed immediately, but of course don’t expect it with the gutless constitution-destroying termites that we now have running our government.
