TWO MASS SHOOTINGS...DIFFERENT OUTCOMES: After Newtown, Armed Citizen Stops Spree in Texas

TWO MASS SHOOTINGS?DIFFERENT OUTCOMES: After Newtown, Armed Citizen Stops Spree in Texas

Like clockwork, within 48 hours after the surreal Newtown, Connecticut, tragedy took place, progressives in Congress were issuing another clarion call for sweeping gun control, specifically in the form of a bill in both Houses.

But before the news articles about Senator Dianne Feinstein?s (D-CA) Sunday morning announcement could even circulate the social media forum, 2nd Amendment stalwarts like Larry Pratt, executive director of the Gun Owners of America (GOA), had their evidence for why such gun control will cost more lives?not save them.

In San Antonio, Texas, a man walked into a restaurant, pulled a weapon, then chased frightened patrons into a nearby movie theater as he opened fire.

So, why didn?t this story rise to the media level that Newtown did? Or Aurora, Colorado, for that matter? Because, before he could shoot more than one person, an off-duty cop working security at the theater pulled a concealed firearm and gunned him down.

?All of our mass murders in the last 20 years have occurred in gun-free zones,? says Pratt, referring to places like Newtown, Aurora and Ft. Hood. ?What a lethal, false security they are. The two people murdered a couple of days earlier in the shopping center in Oregon were also in a gun-free zone.

Hopefully the Connecticut tragedy will be the tipping point after which a rising chorus of Americans will demand elimination of the gun-free zone laws that are in fact ?criminal-safe zones.?

We must tell our elected officials that they are acting as the criminals? friends as long as they continue to support legislation that only protects criminals, not decent people.?

For an informed and rather edgy interview, call Special Guests right now to schedule the bold leader of the GOA, Larry Pratt.

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES MAY BE USEFUL FOR SHOW PREP:

Feinstein Will Introduce Assault Weapons Ban in Senate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/16/feinstein-will-introduce-assault-weapons-ban-in-senate/

Terror at Southwest Side (San Antonio) Movie Theater
http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=119078&article=10644119#ixzz2FMUuW37g

ABOUT YOUR EXPERT GUEST, LARRY PRATT:

Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 30 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.

GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA?s work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.

Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC?s Today Show, ABC?s Good Morning America, CNN?s Crossfire and Larry King Live, the Dan Abrams show and many others.

He has also debated Congressmen James Traficant, Jr. (D-OH), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Vice President Al Gore, among others.

Pratt?s columns have appeared in newspapers across the country, and he?s published a book, Armed People Victorious, in 1990, as well as edited a book, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution & Militias, in 1995. His latest book is On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty.

Pratt has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates. He directs a number of other public interest organizations and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.

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