There are 67,140 elementary schools in the nation

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5. I think it sends a message to kids

Parents and teachers that the gunners took over all the schools. And we are all suspects, like we are at the airport. No one is presumed innocent. No right to privacy. Only the right to bear arms. Add a few more flying projectiles to a malay. Try to get a clean shot off in all of that chaos? Add six. Wait until some jackass, in an assembly, gestures that he is going for a concealed weapon, and 14 teachers reach for their guns and squeeze off 10 rounds, into the crowd. Nobody will want to go to school.