republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
At the very peak of this year’s Christmas shopping season (during
which most Americans do a quarter of their yearly shopping) Chip Bergh,
the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., asked his customers to turn his stores into gun-free zones:
Since many of his stores are located in shopping malls, what Bergh is
asking is that people who have firearms leave them at home, or in their
vehicles — turning those malls, as well as his stores, into gun-free
zones.
Gun-free zones are just what unhinged criminals are looking for:
places with lots of people present who are unable to defend themselves.
John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) published a report
two years ago showing that 94 percent of mass public shootings between
January 2009 and 2014 took place in gun-free zones.
That report was followed by a similar study, this time from Stanford
University, that confirmed the CPRC study: Going back to the beginning
of 2002, of the 54 mass shootings (involving a shooter targeting people
at random), the shooter chose gun-free zones 37 times. Of the 17 times a
shooter choose a location where guns were legally allowed, a third of
the attacks were ended when the shooter was confronted by an individual
legally carrying a firearm.
Perhaps Bergh can be forgiven for his ideological, knee-jerk reaction
to the single incident he referred to in his letter where someone in
one of his stores injured himself when his firearm accidentally
discharged. That same reaction occurred earlier this month when the
shooter in the Ohio State University attack was assumed to be using a
firearm. This included Senator Tim Kaine (Hillary Clinton’s running
mate) and Shannon Watts with Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun
Safety. It was later learned, of course, that the attacker used a
vehicle and a knife during the attack.
If Bergh wants “clarity” and is sincere about his employees’ and customers’ safety, perhaps his letter should have read:
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