Friday, February 14, 2025

WYOMING MAY BE MOVING AWAY FROM GUN FREE ZONE STUPIDITY

By Bob Walsh

  


 
House Bill 172 to Repeal Gun Free Zones and Preemption Amendments has passed the Wyoming House of Representatives and is moving on to the Senate.

Several school districts in Wyoming already permit staff to carry weapons.  

The people pushing this bill point out (correctly) that mass shooters have been KNOWN to pick on targets that prohibit weapons.  They liken the current policy to having a sign on your front lawn announcing to potential bad guys that guns are prohibited at your home and expecting that to keep you safe.  

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Mass shooters have been KNOWN to pick on targets that prohibit weapons." True, but there is no evidence they won't pick a target where weapons are permitted. I don't have a problem with gun free zones. I suspect they safeguard more people than they endanger.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've spent some time in Wyoming. I always concealed carry and a lot of people open carry. LEOSA allows Honorably Retired Cops to even carry in Yellowstone N.P. I never saw a GUN FREE ZONE sign. Not one.

Anonymous said...

If it's a gun free zone, it should be a gun free zone. That would mean no one (including the police) should be allowed to have guns in the area, I don't understand why we keep making special rules for the police and former police.