Author Asha Bendele talks about this topic in her article “Loss & Hope”. She states that "according to the United States Census Bureau, Chicago has the highest crime rate in the entire country" (112). The average person in Chicago can't legally have access to a gun, but people can still get their hands on them. This significantly proves that a gun ban will only harm this country and increase criminal activity. Most of those who oppose the Second Amendment want other major cities to follow Chicago's lead on gun laws. Once these other cities begin to take their cues from the city of Chicago, we will immediately begin to see an increase in violence, drug use, and gun crime. Schools are also victims of the curse of “gun-free zones.” Major criminals know that in these areas no one can stand up to them, giving them plenty of time to commit these dastardly acts and escape unscathed. Author Grant Arnold discusses this in “Arming the Good Guys: School Zones and the Second Amendment.” He says: “Policies making zones 'gun-free' provide a sense of security to those who engage in magical thinking, but in practice, of course, killers are not stopped by gun-free zones. As always, it is honest people – the very people we want to arm – who tend to obey the law” (487). We need to understand that “gun-free zones” are really just a space where the people there are easy targets. The last thing we want to see on the news is the death of a child who was unprotected because of these laws. The only way we can think of stopping a bad guy with a gun is to have a good guy with a