-Schools or school property but may carry while in a vehicle on school property while dropping off or picking up if a parent or legal guardian

-Public or private day care center, public or private child caring agency, or public or private child placing agency.

-Sports arena or stadium

-A tavern where the primary source of income is the sale of alcoholic liquor by the glass consumed on the premises

-Any property or facility owned or operated by a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other place of worship, unless the presiding official or officials allow concealed weapons

-An entertainment facility that the individual knows or should know has a seating capacity of 2,500 or more

-A hospital

-A dormitory or classroom of a community college, college, or university

-A Casino

They can be that stupid, furthermore, i bet these poor
souls are in the teens..( we know the brain really does
not mature until 21?) I don’t know, the fact is that
our good judgment takes a long time to develope

With that said, it would be naive to think that we should all just frolic to our libraries thinking everything is okay. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE SECURITY OFFICERS. You know, those trained, capable individuals who are equipped to deal with all sorts of criminal scenarios.

You also seem to think that because there are occasional, highly outlier situations, such as a person going on a shooting spree in a movie theater, that it justifies a populace armed to the teeth in one big Wild West showdown of paranoia and petty squabbles. Well, that’s the sort of thing Western Civ has been trying to avoid, however incrementally, over the last century. The only way things are really going to change is when the need for gun violence is the exception rather than the rule.

I have a feeling that this worldview is actually happening today as there is much less fatal violence today then there has been in a long time. True, guns are still freely available and therefore that means there must be other factors in why this decline, but at the same time, these outlier occurrences might be lessened if we were at the very least able to keep better tabs on folks buying unusual amounts of ammo, guns, and other death-dealing technology in short periods of time like the CO killer was doing, i.e. a red flag and way of reporting the suspicion.

The library I work in, again, is in a very crime ridden city and not once in its 100 year history has there been a fatal or potentially fatal violent crime committed on its premises. This is not to say that it can’t happen tomorrow, but the way the “gun nuts” (as opposed to the majority of gun owners who are normal, reasonable, and responsible) have it we live in a shoot em up Wild West world. We don’t.

Again, Librarians that rather you get taken out by a criminal than to “sully” the good name of the library by someone being able to save the lives of patron by actually bringing a gun to a GUNFIGHT.

So what is YOUR plan as to deal with someone that comes into your library and starts wasting innocent people?

Duck? Run? Call the police and hope for the best until they get there? Shush them???

The people in that theater in hindsight would have loved to have had the CHANCE to take him down. That establishment didn’t allow “gun nuts” to go in with their protection.

“Well no one could see, so no biggie! They were being choked by tear gas anyway”! *facepalm*

The “gun nuts” followed the rules. The criminal looked at the sign, walked in anyway and now lots of people are dead.

But beware the “gun nuts”?

“As far as libraries and guns? No. I work in an urban librarian in a infamously dangerous town and I’ve never experienced a situation that would have called for guns. In fact, there have been situations that if guns were available they may have been used.”

So? With that callous attitude towards patron safety, I can only assume that there are likely lots of them that avoid that branch rather than take a risk knowing that the place is in a crime hole.

This is what happens when you live in a society that rejects science and live in an echo chamber.

As far as libraries and guns? No. I work in an urban librarian in a infamously dangerous town and I’ve never experienced a situation that would have called for guns. In fact, there have been situations that if guns were available they may have been used.