Parents: Let’s look at the facts surrounding mass shootings and gun-free zones

By By Mary Ramirez, for TheBlaze

So, Halloween’s coming up—and we got an email this week from our daycare/preschool announcing the upcoming Halloween festivities. We can send our kids in the costumes of our choice, so long as we “refrain from bringing weapons to go with the costume.”

I was so relieved to see that a zero-tolerance mentality extends to our daughter’s daycare as well; after all, we live in a crazy world.

I’ve never known such constant fear as that which I now experience as a parent. For those of you out there who aren’t yet, well— it’s just inexplicable. You worry from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to bed, and even after. It’s a hard slog, this parenting thing.

In this world of evil people, I breathe a sigh of relief when I know that our nation’s schools—where so many of us entrust our precious children most of the day—are gun-free zones.

I know my relief is shared by the families of the 141 students and faculty “killed in a mass murder or attempted mass murder at a school since Columbine.”

I know my relief is shared by the families of the 235 students and faculty killed in all school …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze