The price of folly

"Gun free zones" are premised on a fantasy.

People don't stop killers. People with guns do

Why don't we just "ban" rape and murder?  Why not "ban" crystal meth and crack cocaine?  Because we recognize such fantasy "bans" to be insultingly unserious.

But at least those "bans" could qualify as harmless symbolic acts, expressions of community outrage.

Gun-free zones that "ban" guns, by contrast, are also symbolic acts but ones that put innocent people in jeopardy.  No authority should have the right to do that.

Byron