Mass Shootings – Enough with the Live Practice Drills, Let’s Get Serious on Defense

By Phillip Evans

Opinion

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Perhaps law-enforcement and politicians should analyze these shootings as Live Practice Drills to see what the common elements are, and to see what they can do to minimize the occurrence of these horrible events.

Recently, even a location (Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern CA) that had a fence and metal detector weapons screening for attendees became a non-gun-free-zone when a criminal cut through a portion of the fence and entered with a rifle. Even with a security and police presence, he managed to kill three and wound thirteen.

So much for signs and fences.

The only reason I can think of that these shootings will keep occurring as often as they do, is that perhaps politicians require more and more such practice drills to help push an anti-gun rights agenda.

The evil-doers certainly are giving much political hay to those who would bit-by-bit strip American citizens of our right of self-defense. Even Democrats who once pussy-footed away from any statement directly pointing toward confiscation are now starting to trumpet that we need mandatory “buy-backs”. Sorry, but my guns are not for …Read the Rest