Friday, July 27, 2012

Movie massacre proves need for armed citizens, says gun law expert


The mass murder in Aurora, Colorado proves there is a need to allow citizens to carry concealed firearms in order to protect people from mass murderers, gun rights expert John M. Snyder said on Tuesday.

"Those who prohibit law-abiding citizens from carrying guns for self-protection ought to be [the people who are] penalized," he added.

According to the gun-rights policy maven and advisor to the National Association of Chiefs of Police, the recent theater shootings in which a dozen people were murdered and scores wounded could have been interrupted or averted if even a single well-trained armed citizen was in the movies at the time. But a short-sighted, narrow-minded management policy prevented such an outcome in which the only person killed was the cold-blooded gunman .... http://www.examiner.com