If Guns Make Us Safer, Why is Rep. Peter King asking for a 1,000 foot Gun buffer for Politicians?

Guns don’t kill people, people do.

Concealed carry, open carry for that matter, make us all safer.

If any of the above were actually true, then what is Rep. Peter King trying to say?

Washington Post: Rep. Peter King (R, N.Y.) said that he would offer a bill to outlaw the carrying of firearms within 1,000 feet of U.S. lawmakers and federal judges.  

ABC News: King is the first Republican lawmaker to seek new gun-control legislation in the wake of Saturday's fatal shootings.

Oddly, it’s the Democrat offering a less restrictive gun law that would allow being armed but not allowing as much ammunition.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) plans to introduce a bill to restrict sales of high-capacity ammunition clips like the ones used by the Tucson gunman.

A frightened Peter King quickly made it look like he wasn’t scared sh**less, by feigning concern for the public attending a political event.

King said the legislation … is not only about protecting federal officials, but also about protecting the public at events with public officials. 

Keep in mind, this is from the same party that would love to do away with 1,000 foot gun zones around schools and allow teachers to carry.

NY Magazine noted this:

As the Washington Examiner's Benjamin Domenech writes:

Conservative politicians routinely participate in hunting and gun range activities — I've gone shooting with a number of Governors and Senators — and the idea that people in their vicinity and beyond (1,000 feet is quite a ways) could be arrested simply for legally possessing a firearm is incredibly silly and a recipe for all sorts of violations of this law.

Schools, airports, and government buildings where restrictions apply on gun possession are all set in a single place — they aren't roving locations where the Second Amendment does not apply. In contrast, King's law would create bubbles of illegality around politicians themselves! What would happen when a Texas Congressman attends a county fair? You'd have to arrest the attendees from the Ferris Wheel all the way to the Cotton Candy stand.

If guns made all of us safer, why don’t we allow guns in our state legislatures, congress and at town hall meetings? They are there to protect us, aren’t they?

Peter King is afraid, very afraid.