The founder of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, understood the harms resulting from the type of policy created at Virginia Tech. In his “Commonplace Book,” Jefferson copied a passage from Cesare Beccaria, the founder of criminology, which was as true on Monday as it always has been: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve
rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

The excerpt above was taken from this PDF from the Wall Street Journal. Read the PDF from the Wallstreet Journal. It’s rather amazing. It dives into why gun free zones aren’t a good idea in all cases.
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