@Jennifer:
The everyone carry point Jermo is making seems inconsequential. Maybe I am missing what he is saying.
I think you are.
The best issue against an everyone carry law is that the same number, if not more students probably would have died due to accidental firearm discharges. Of course, that could be minimized with proper firearm training in grammer and secondary schools.
That was one point of my “argument.”
@Baghdaddy:
My experiences with all armed populations was everyone was very polite and crime did not happen. Of course it could have been the quality of the people. Maybe there is something to that saying “it’s not guns that kill people, it’s people who kill people”.
Guns just change the range and repeatability.
Of course the quality of the people matter. Someone who respects guns and justice is not likely to abuse the weapon. Someone who wants to commit a crime will find it much more efficacious to wield a gun than a knife - but it is their intent to commit the crime that causes them to use something that adds leverage.
@dezrtfish:
I think that School/College employees should be given the option to carry concealed. This guy decided to go out with a bang and knew an easy place to do it, where there was no chance of opposition. If a guy came into my office with a .22 and a 9mm he’d be dead before the door closed.
Btw I carry a handgun with me every day and miraculously in the 15 years I have done so I have managed to avoid an “accidental discharge” or any accident period for that mater.
Are guns what we want to introduce into schools because of an event like this? It seems to me that young adults, who are very emotional, might not be the ideal people to grant guns to. I could be wrong.
Good job on handling your weapon. But it’s not necessarily you whom I’m worried about. It could be your kids. It could be the event that someone uses an excessive amount of force to deal with a matter. Among other things.