We are a gun-crazy society and here is proof...

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A law passed late Thursday by Michigan legislators to allow trained gun owners to carry weapons in places such as schools, bars, churches, day care centers and stadiums has fueled concern as news unfolded Friday of a mass shooting inside a Connecticut elementary school.

“It’s hard for me to process that legislation in light of watching the news about the school shooting in Connecticut,” Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Superintendent Jeremy Hughes said. “As an educational community, we’re alarmed at the possibility that guns would be permitted in schools. I’m just in shock right now.”

Canton Public Safety Director Patrick Nemecek said he believes concealed guns shouldn’t be allowed in places such as schools and bars.

“We would prefer that weapons are not allowed in and around our schools,” he said.

http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20121214/NEWS03/121214008/Officials-react-Michigan-gun-law-Connecticut-faces-mass-school-shooting?odyssey=nav%7Chead

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1. Good going, fuckheads

This makes the MI GOP legislators look like even bigger douche bags, and I didn't think that was even possible.

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2. I doubt that it was legal to bring firearms into the school in Connecticut. ...

Yet a shooter ignored the law and the results are tragic.

You can post all the "gun free" zone signs that you want and you WILL keep honest people from carrying firearms into such areas. A shooter may feel that those areas are good shooting galleries.

I don't see any problem with making certain areas off limits to legal concealed carry but such areas should be required to have a level of security high enough to deter a shooter. Many stadiums do have armed security present. I don't believe carrying a legally concealed weapon into a bar if you plan on drinking should be legal. I have carried my concealed weapon to churches (which I rarely visit). There have been church shootings although they are rare but I don't carry the weapon into the church out of fear but because I feel that I might be stolen from my car if I left it there.