Got crime? Ban more guns!

Magical thinking by a Demonrat. Criminals use guns, so ban guns, crime disappears.

Someone's been watching too many Harry Potter movies and not realizing they are fantasy.
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Bill would ban guns from gas stations 

By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel

Dec. 11, 2011 

Just as thousands of Wisconsin residents are starting to use their new permits to carry concealed weapons, a Milwaukee lawmaker has proposed making gas stations off limits.

Assembly Bill 406's sponsor, Rep. Josh Zepnick, (D-Milwaukee), said many station owners, employees and customers are among his constituents and have suffered ongoing violent crime at and around the businesses.

"This is  a serious pattern of crime that has escalated, presumably due to tough economic times and the 'ease' of getting in/out of a gas station for criminal activity," Zepnick said in an email. He noted that he has attended the funerals of two gas station workers murdered on the job.

He knows it will be a long shot for passage in a Republican-controlled Legislature that's shown more interest in expanding gun rights that adding restrictions to new carry rules.

"In short,  this is a work in progress," he said. " Isolating one form of business for certain protection is not easy from a Legislation standpoint all I can do is keep trying."

The bill would also upgrade to felonies any act of theft or criminal damage to property at a gas station. Zepnick said the hope is that increased punishment might help break the pattern of gas stations being targeted for crime.
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Instead of "keep trying" to make impossible laws work, he might try thinking. Criminals break laws. There are laws against theft, assault, battery, murder, and vandalism. Punishments don't deter criminals, except after they are applied, because the criminal is not physically unable to commit them if in jail or executed - well, not if we don't allow a death penalty. While they are loose, the people have a right acknowledged by Wisconsin's law to defend ourselves and our property from criminals, especially violent ones.

He ought to be proposing a monetary award for any concealed carry licensee who prevents or ends a violent crime, rather than trying to put the concealed carry genie back in the bottle.

The bad guys won't go away in either case.