Conservative Media Figures Attack ‘Gun Free Zones,’ Advocate For More Firearms in Schools
In response to the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida that took the lives of 17 people yesterday, many in conservative media launched an attack against “gun free zones” and called for laws allowing regular citizens to arm themselves inside schools.
While many others call for legislative reforms that would restrict access to weapons, such as stricter background checks and specific weapon bans, right-wing figures took the opposite approach.
NRATV’s newest voice Dan Bongino advocated for additional firearms in schools, saying the only way another one of these shootings can be prevented is “a good guy with the appropriate training and a firearm to stop it.”
Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe suggested laws should be passed allowing regular citizens “to arm themselves” while inside schools and other gun free zones.
“Perhaps we have to also look at citizens being able to arm themselves in certain areas like this school, which was a gun free zone,” Boothe argued today.
She justified the idea by pointing to the recent shooting in Sutherland, Texas where 26 people were killed, as an NRA instructor armed with his own rifle interrupted and chased off the gunman from the scene.
Below are the many other examples of conservative media personalities calling for more firearms in schools and blaming the incident on gun free zones:
If the shooter knew teachers were armed and trained, he wouldnt have gone there.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 15, 2018
Phil Mudd breaks down on CNN, saying “we cannot accept this.” It’s true, we shouldn’t. We shouldn’t accept sending our children into schools that set them to potentially become defenseless victims.
If we care about our children, no school should be a Gun-Free Zone. #Parkland
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) February 14, 2018
Certainly some teachers could be trained we trust them with our children already allow them to keep them safe as well. https://t.co/Bps7bOGND9
— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) February 14, 2018
They caught the little shit in #FloridaShooting Schools are too vulnerable. A straight line can be drawn from 1999 #ColumbineMassacre to #SandyHook to #Broward mass shooting. This is our 21st Century reality-our kids are targets for misanthropic psycho punk losers with big guns.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) February 14, 2018
Another mass public shooting in Florida, another gun-free zone: Parkland, Florida school shooting https://t.co/mY83nqKDeF
— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) February 14, 2018
No school should be a gun free zone.
Not if we care about our kids.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) February 14, 2018
Another mass shooting in another gun free zone & Democrats are tweeting #GunReformNow. This is not a gun issue. This is another case of law abiding Americans not being able to protect themselves because the law left them vulnerable. #parklandshooting pic.twitter.com/BKCnYVJFe7
— Angelo Ray Gomez (@AngeloRayGomez) February 15, 2018
To my friends on the left…children are dead. Can we talk now?
Armed retired veterans paid to protect our children in your sitting duck, “gun free zone” schools?
You in? #parkland shooting #PrayersForParkland
— Gina Gentry Loudon (@RealDrGina) February 15, 2018
Weird how a “gun free” zone sign didn’t work and criminals don’t follow the law. I also find it strange people use drugs when their illegal.
So what exactly will #GunReformNow do?
— Stephen Rowe (@Rowebotz) February 15, 2018
NE POLL! 100% percent of Wacko Attackers say a GUN FREE ZONE is where THEY feel the safest.
— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) February 15, 2018
Priorities. We protect banks with guns but we “protect” our kids with Gun Free Zone signs. #GunControl wont help. #Florida #Parkland #MarjoryStonemanDouglas #NicholasCruz.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) February 14, 2018
This morning, @hughhewitt asked Betsy DeVos if she thought teachers should be armed.
She said states “clearly have the opportunity and the option to do that … I think this needs to be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things.”
— Rebecca Klein (@rklein90) February 15, 2018
Watch Lise Boothe’s comments on the matter above, via Fox News.
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