Gun control author understands danger of "gun free" zones….

[ezkl2230]

He assumes people are not peaceable unless they prove it. Guilty until proven innocent is the normal.

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Actually, I think you missed the point of his statement. Here is the entire paragraph:

"Peaceable citizens" is the key term here. We are maintaining a level of peace by providing knowledge that there are repercussions for certain actions. During the Cold War we never fired a nuclear weapon at Russia (though there were very close calls, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis), but it was not because we were "good guys." It was because we knew that if we struck them, they had the power to retaliate. It was two sides possessing strength but respecting the other's strength. As long as guns exist in the world, criminals will always have guns -- but we law-abiding citizens have the power to choose whether we will hold our own strength against them.

He isn't saying that the government has the right to determine who is and isn't peaceful, he is acknowledging the deterrent value of privately owned and carried firearms that establishes and enforces the peace because it turns crime into a zero sum venture. The benefit to risk ratio is adverse to them in the extreme when privately owned and carried firearms become part of the equation.