Originally Posted by dropnosky

I think they were specifically arguing about the 1000 yard no gun near schools rule.

On one hand, I agree this law is completely useless when an armed lunatic goes about entering the school to kill children and themselves.

However, on the other hand, there is something to be said for limiting accidental gun use and or discharge near schools, and such a law might act as a deterrent for the average idiot, if not the madman.

Seems to me that a lot of people on this forum have a lot more interest in training and intelligent use of firearms than the average gun owner I know personally. I used to work for a man who kept a 357 magnum loaded in his center console with 4 kids between 3 and 12 scampering around in his truck.
To my knowledge, he used it to shoot a dog once in his trash cans. He doesn't do anything else with it, apart from leave it there in his unlocked truck.

Another former boss was a big collector and hoarder of automatic rifles, of which he had dozens. His storage method was to place them up in the rafters of his basement as a primitive gun rack.

Yet a third, this time a coworker at the same job as mr ceiling gun rack, was just a sloppy mess and confirmed drunk, and had a small 2nd bedroom in his bungalow that guns were just laying on the floor or leaning on the wall, loaded or unloaded, he didn't know, he just placed them often drunk after shooting at targets in his back property.

These three men I think represent the average idiot, the one who just happens to drop a gun for their kids to grab or accidentally fire it in some other fashion.