How many Gun free zones have to be shot up before they start letting law abiding citizens protect their own?

 BELLEVUE, WA – The tragic shooting at Northern Illinois University late Thursday is another failure of the “gun free zone” mentality that has created a false sense of security on college campuses and other public venues across the country, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

“Gun-free zones have given us nothing but body counts,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. “This giant loophole in public safety is becoming a national disgrace and it is time to dramatically change our perspective on self-defense in this country.

“This incident is particularly distressing because it happened in Illinois, one of two remaining states in which anti-gun state lawmakers and equally-anti-gun governors have repeatedly thwarted common sense efforts to put law-abiding citizens on a level playing field with criminals and crazies by adopting right-to-carry laws,” Gottlieb stated. “Illinois and Wisconsin lawmakers have chosen to leave their citizens at the mercy of killers who have no mercy.

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in the campus shooting. It occurred two weeks after a gunman murdered five women at a suburban Chicago shopping mall.