Gun Control advocates in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook School shooting are screaming for the need to eliminate gun ownership by private citizens.

What they ignore, or don’t know, is that “gun-free zones make us LESS SAFE” (John Fund, “The Facts about Mass Shootings”, National Review Online, Dec 16).

He goes on to say research has shown over the last 62 years, with only 1 exception, that every public U.S. shooting where more than 3 people have been killed occurred in gun-free zones (schools, theaters, shopping malls etc). Why make it easy for demons?

Putting this in perspective: There were 31,672 gun-related deaths in 2010 (a little over 11,000 attributed to homicide and 19,400 suicides), according to the CDC. In that same time-frame, there were 33,687 traffic fatalities. Does anyone suggest auto-free zones on the highway…? (Other than Ralph Nader, that is)

Please…stop wasting time and use some logic. Taking a law-abiding private citizen’s guns away simply makes it easier for the next evildoer to perpetrate the unthinkable.

John Lott (Fund’s research consultant) notes that the Aurora, Colorado theater-shooter had 7 movie houses showing the Batman film he was obsessed with. The killer’s choice wasn’t the closest to him… it was the only theater which had posted signs stating that legal concealed weapons were not allowed. 12 victims died in that ‘gun-free’ zone.

If just one of the administrative staff at Sandy Hook had had a concealed-carry weapon on their person last week, today’s story may have been about a thwarted killer’s lone funeral, rather than 20 children and 6 adults.