No, laws are put in place to punish people. Laws cannot restrict anyone - smart or stupid, good or bad - from doing anything. Words on a piece of paper have zero effect on someone intent on commiting crimes.
Laws have to be broken before they can be applied.
True. Yet it is the punishments for breaking those laws that keep
most people from breaking them, and that keep the majority of us safe. Take those laws away .. I refer back to my point of giving some people an inch .. and they will take a mile. You don't give them that inch .. it makes it much harder for them to make the mile.
It isn't failsafe .. nothing is. But it does at least keep somewhat of a buffer in place.
I'll ask you very clearly....
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING IN A COURTHOUSE/BAR/CHURCH AND BEING IN A MALL AS FAR AS CRIMINALS COMING IN AND KILLING YOU IS CONCERNED? AND WHY SHOULD PEOPLE NOT BE ALLOWED TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHILE IN SUCH PLACES?
I dont understand WHY you would need a gun in church, so I don't really care about that. A bar is a public place as well, so it falls under my *I care* radar as well. Those are all public places, you know up front that you could be shot. You don't find many derranged people going into a mall and picking people off.
Most people who do thesort of thing I'm talking about have a specific agenda on their plate. They have a problem with an individual or a group of individuals. They have a specific target in mind when they set about ther mission. Usually it is well planned out.
A person who is distraught is willing to do things your normal person won't.
Police officers are trained weapon carriers. That doesn't mean they aren't corrupt, or dumb, or irrisponsible. But that is their job. They keep guns out of airports and courthouses to cut down the CHANCE/RISK of a violent situation from occurring.
Most courthouses are not one story. They are designed that way for a purpose .. to contain problems. They put metal detectors at the door to stop as much as they can. If someone does happen to get past them .. they can/will lock the elevators down. Most courthouses don't grant you access to the stairwells because of that.
You let people start walking in with weapons, they don't know to do that. They get on the elevator, go to the floor they want, walk into court, sit down, hear what they thought they were going to .. and problem escalates. No one had any warning.
Ok, EXAMPLE: (this is a solid example .. it has happen before)
so let's say a CCW card carrier is doing this. He pulls out his gun and kills the defendant (who really was innocent btw) the bullet tears through him and into his lawyer and kills her too.
Bring in this new law: (this is theoretical)
You stand up, take out your gun and shoot the person, killing them. Problem is the bullet also passes through him and ends up in one of the baliff's who was standing close to him (paralizing him).
Problem solved?
hmm...
Now, you look around you at the pandemonium that is in process. People are runnig everywhere, screaming and crying. What about the 10 people who were trampled in the process of everyone in the court room scrambling to get away? Some being children. (Not all parents can secure childcare for court. They do allow them in the courtroom.)
The problem I see.
Who is responsible for all the commotion? Do you feel responsible for shooting the Baliff? Should the senator feel responsible for allowing guns in the courthouse in the first place? How should the family of the people injured feel? What happens to/for them?
I feel the same way in regards to a plane/airport.
Long story short. Guns are not NEEDED in these places .. it's simply the fact that people WANT to be able to have them in those places.