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Originally Posted by Tom Servo
I don't think they are. If asked, I guarantee his supporters think the SAFE Act is a good law; they just don't want their friend to suffer for it.
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Tom, the guys friends are making the same arguments that the pro-gun community makes, and the article cited in the OP even says so:
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Originally Posted by Kwaitkowski, Michael, and Lankes
“The more they make these gun-free zones, the more they make people vulnerable to mass killers like at Columbine and Sandy Hook,” said Stephen J. Aldstadt, a Colden resident who serves as president of the state Shooters Committee on Political Education.
Some of Ferguson’s supporters echoed similar criticism, saying that carrying a weapon meant Ferguson could have helped police in the event there was a gunman actually threatening students.
“Dwayne probably was in a position to help the police not knowing that he was the one they were looking for,” said George Johnson, president of Buffalo United Front,
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This is the hypocracy we are talking about. They are using our arguments to try to justify what the guy did. It's easy to demonize gun owners until one of your own finds himself in the spotlight...