Indiana Legislature Votes To Allow Guns In School Parking Lots

[Jazzy]

Both houses of the Indiana legislature voted Thursday night to approve a bill permitting guns on school grounds. The bill now goes to the state’s conservative Gov. Mike Pence for his consideration. If Pence signs the bill, it would permit parents, teachers, school visitors and students who belong to high school gun clubs to keep guns in their locked cars in school parking lots, although it does not permit them in school buildings or buses.

The bill’s supporters defend it on the grounds that it will allow gun owners to continue to carry a firearm while they are traveling to and from a school, but it is difficult to defend on the grounds that the National Rifle Association previously offered for allowing guns on school campuses. In a press conference following the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre, the NRA’s CEO Wayne LaPierre argued that “gun-free school zones” should be eliminated because they prevent armed individuals from shooting a gunman intent on mass murder before his killing spree begins. Indeed, this press conference was the source of LaPierre’s claim that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

LaPierre’s claim that more guns prevent murder by allowing potential victims to engage in self defense is highly dubious. In 2010, for example, there were 8,275 criminal gun homicides but only 230 justifiable homicides, so self defense killings are quite rare. But even if one accepts his premise that guns in schools will permit armed individuals to stop mass shooters, the bill that passed the Indiana legislature will do nothing to advance this goal. Should a gunman arrive on an Indiana campus, the NRA’s “good guy with a gun” will have left his firearm in his car.

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Teenagers and guns at school? This spells disaster. How many cars will be broken into because there might be a gun to steal?

What are your thoughts about allowing guns in a school parking lot?

 

[Nebulous]

Free guns at your local school parking lot! Bring a rock to smash the car window of your choice! 1 in 5's a winner!

 

[Jazzy]

Easy, just look for the cars that have the gun club sticker on the car!

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

There was a day when school gun violence was next to non existent and bringing your rifle to school was no big deal because of school gun clubs. Or having that pickup truck with the gun rack in the back never got a second look. Bringing the guns to school is not the problem. The problem is who is teaching and influencing the children of today that needs to change.

 

[Jazzy]

What do you think would happen if a cop was patrolling the parking lot and saw a teenager walking towards the school with a rifle that he just fetched from his locked car?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

What do you think would happen if a cop was patrolling the parking lot and saw a teenager walking towards the school with a rifle that he just fetched from his locked car?

In the past he would be carrying it in a case. So back then he would be in trouble and not much more. Today the kid would be dead where he stood.