This article from Fox News makes an excellent point about multi-victim public shootings: they almost exclusively happen in gun-free zones. If you think about it, this makes sense. If someone wants to kill large numbers of people, where will they go? They'll go somewhere where they have the advantage, where no one else will have guns.
This fact points to the cliche, but true, statement that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. People who are going to commit crimes with a gun probably won't care that they are committing another crime by having the gun, so outlawing guns will only take them from those who do not want to commit crimes; the very same people who could stop the criminal if they were allowed to carry firearms.
When my home state of Florida enacted "shall-issue" laws for concealed carry permits, its violent crime rates decreased faster than the rest of the nation. Think about it, would you be more or less likely to attack someone if you knew they had the means to easily kill you?
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