I would accept any "proof" you have EXCEPT something written by John Lott. Pretty much everything he has published or said has been universally discredited.
I will restrict my comments to James Holmes. I used this source for the diaries of the guy since they were the most legible.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...olmes-journal/
According to the diary Holmes had 2 venues in mind -- an airport and a movie theater. He PARTIALLY eliminated the airport due to security. The MAIN reason he dismissed the airport is that it was "too much of a terrorist history. Terrorism isn't the message."
No where can I find that Holmes state he chose the theater he did because it was a gun free zone. He narrowed his choice down to, according to the diary, those theaters that were "isolated, proximal, and large". The Century 16 Cineplex was the the closest theater to his home that filled those requirements. Once that decision was made, the diary clearly states that he narrowed down his specific theater down to theater 10 or 9. He wrote 2 entire pages in the diary on the pros and cons of why to choose one over the other. He finally decided that theater 9 met his needs. ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE THEATER BEING A GUN FREE ZONE BEING PART OF HIS DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
Regarding your last paragraph on various polls.
The question in the Rasmussen poll was, to me, very poorly worded.
"Would you feel safer moving to a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun or a neighborhood where you could have a gun for your own protection?"
Many would find it hard to say "No" to that question. I don't own a gun. I don't look to my neighbors who might have a gun to protect me. I would not feel safer or unsafer in either case. But I think most people would say "No" when asked that question. Do I feel safer going to a movie theater that allows or bans guns? Makes no difference to me.
I couldn't find the Gallup poll to which you were referring. However, I can cite several recent polls that show gun ownership within homes to be at there lowest level in many decades, such as:
"A General Social Survey, which has been tracking gun ownership in surveys since 1872, has found that 31 percent of households reported owning a gun in 2014, which is down from approximately half of households in the late 1970's and early 1980's."
So while both the Rasmussen and Gallup polls may be correct in their results, people are not doing what they are saying is best. 63% say guns make them safer in their homes but only 31% have guns in their homes. Do you think that criminals are looking at the drop in homes having handguns and planning their next crime? Doubtful there is high correlation between handgun ownership in the homes and crimes committed by people coming into the home to commit a crime.
Do you have a sign outside your home stating something like "I am heavily armed so come in at your own risk"?
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
I wish I could answer but I have been published this specific topic and it is online. I don't want to give the stalker any info but my argument swayed a lot of people locally.
