Vaughn Explains The Obvious: Mass Killers Pick Venues Where Victims Are Sitting Ducks

By John R Lott

Colorado –-(Ammoland.com)- When you have Actor Vince Vaughn quoting the information from the Crime Prevention Research Center essentially word for word, as he did in Monday’s release of the UK edition of GQ, you know that we have made a difference.

From Vaughn’s interview in the UK edition of GQ:

“It’s well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back. All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones. Take mass shootings. They’ve only happened in places that don’t allow guns. These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenceless human beings. They do not want confrontation. In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these f***ing schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds.”

Media Matters attacks Vaughn by pointing to a flawed report by Bloomberg’s Everytown, but of course, Media Matters doesn’t respond or even acknowledge all the errors that have been previously pointed out with Bloomberg’s report.  See also here.

Killers often openly talk about their desire to attack where guns are banned. Last June, Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in Santa Barbara, Calif., explained his own choice. In his 141-page “Manifesto,” Rodger turned down targets because he worried that someone with a gun would cut short his killing spree.

That same month, Justin Bourque shot to death three people in Canada. His Facebook page made fun of gun bans, with pictures of defenseless victims explaining to killers that they weren’t allowed to have their guns.

This past week we finally got a look at the diary of the Batman movie theater killer, James Holmes, and it was clear that he was considering both attacking an airport and a movie theater.  But he turned down the airport option because he was concerned about their “substantial security.”

Of course, there are numerous other examples such as the Columbine killers opposing the concealed carry law that was then working its way through the state legislature.  The Majority leader of the state House at the time, Doug Dean, told John Lott that Klebold had written his state legislators opposing the legislation.  The bill would have allowed people to carry permitted concealed handguns on school property.  The killers timed their attack for the very day that final passage of the law was planned for in the legislature.

Their attack derailed the passage for years, but few talk about the fact that their attack was timed for just hours before the final vote.

For those interested, here is a list of concealed handgun permit holders who have stopped mass public shootings.

About Crime Prevention Research Center
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Source: http://www.ammoland.com/2015/06/vaughn-explains-the-obvious-mass-killers-pick-venues-where-victims-are-sitting-ducks/