Workplace shootings took 69 lives in '03, group says

May 13, 2004
Cincinnati Enquirer

WASHINGTON - November's killings at a West Chester trucking company helped make 2003 the deadliest year for workplace shootings in the past decade, an anti-gun group said Wednesday.

Sixty-nine people were killed and 46 wounded in 45 workplace shootings last year. Workplace shootings nearly doubled from 2002 to 2003, according to "Terror Nine to Five: Guns in the American Workplace," the report from Handgun-Free America.

"The unifying factor amongst all these tragedies is the availability of firearms, especially semiautomatic handguns, which are the weapons of choice for rampage and workplace shooters," said Chris McGrath, executive director of Handgun-Free America. The Arlington, Va.-based group favors a ban on privately owned handguns.

Commentary:
Uh, actually, the unifying factor about these tragedies is that they usually happen in places where the right to carry firearms is prohibited, as it was in Ohio last year.

Gun prohibitions do not stop criminals, period. Just ask residents of Washington, D.C. or Chicago, IL. Ohioans have their own experience with how gun control has failed to protect the innocent, after having just won their right to self-defense and overturned a failed 150-year ban on concealed carry.

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