[cgregor]

Only one person?

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by cgregor

Only one person?

Not sure where you're reading that. One magazine per person. 1200 tickets were given out to 1200 individuals. Each of those individuals got one mag. There were easily twice that number of people present.

[LeviDunn]

I hope you all prevail. Don't need another Mass to the west of us.

[arctichomesteader]

I wish the Free State Project had picked VT instead of NH. There is someone planning to bring in 30,000 Mormons though.

[Biker53]

It is frightening that the anti-gunners will now celebrate their victory in making our schools safe when they have done nothing of the kind. Our kids deserve better.

The most common manner in which kids have brought guns into school have been in their backpack. Clear backpacks would make that much more difficult to do. Simple inexpensive solution easily implemented.

Most courthouses across the country have metal detectors and armed guards at the door. Why are the people going into courthouses more worthy of protection than school kids? Most high schools already have a school resource officer assigned to it. Adding a metal detector and security has been greatly improved. With this would go a system of all other doors being kept locked from the outside.

Allowing teachers or other school personnel to carry guns would give crazies pause to think. Being crazy doesn't mean you are also brave. Currently they know they won't meet any resistance. Crazies don't attack courthouses or police stations or shooting ranges or anywhere else that they know a good guy with a gun might shoot back. They know schools are gun free zones where they won't meet any resistance.

Nothing is foolproof, but the kinds of things I describe would greatly enhance security at very little expense. Making Vermonters drive across the river into NH to buy large capacity mags doesn't help at all.

Criminals and crazies are going to get all the guns they want. Druggies broke into a neighbors home and stole 8 guns. They're out there somewhere and nobody is going to go through the new private sale background check system to sell them to other drug dealers or to crazies.

[arctichomesteader]

Laws like the magazine ban are especially ludicrous in a state as small as Vermont where NH already caters to anything Vermonters want to buy tax-free. If I can figure out that I can pay cash in NH for whatever I want, you know someone planning a mass killing will figure that out. The one in Fair Haven even figured out a shotgun would be a deadlier weapon than a rifle or handgun. The FL killer used 10 round mags anyways because they're easier to hide when he was sneaking around.

[jdhpa]

Originally Posted by Biker53

Criminals and crazies

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. If someone intent on harming others is roaming about freely they'll find a way, no matter what laws are passed.

[Biker53]

Originally Posted by jdhpa

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. If someone intent on harming others is roaming about freely they'll find a way, no matter what laws are passed.

Yes, and this is why we should focus on what might stop them. The new law doesn't.

[arctichomesteader]

Check out this person's comment on the WCAX facebook page. She appears to be a resident of another state but man people like this don't care about kids just attacking gun owners.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

I wish the Free State Project had picked VT instead of NH. There is someone planning to bring in 30,000 Mormons though.

How in the world does a project "bring in 30,000 Mormons"?