Reply #31: Replying to you all up to post 18.

[beevul]

First of all, I am NOT saying CCW is the answer. I believe on SOME level it is a partial answer. Not the only possible one however.

Would I bring a gun to class if I was allowed? Honestly, I would have to give that ALOT of thought, Eric, before I could answer truthfully and earnestly.

Bornagain, I really am NOT trying to advance a pet issue in this thread. I started this thread with the jist of it being that school gun-free-school-zones (GFSZ'z) need rethinking and left it wide open. I believe there are multiples of choices that could be put into effect to make these places less attractive to wrong-doers, less assailable when that fails. I just dont want to see this happen again.

Quaker, I'm not saying it made it easier for this guy to operate, I'm saying it made it easy for him to operate to the EXTENT that he did.

Kerrytravelers, Exelent suggestion.

Wick, You know where I stand on guns. I don't hide the fact that I support private ownership broadly. This isn't about adding more guns to the mix per-se. This is about making sure that IF were going to have "gun free zones", that proper protection, procedure, and preparation are in place so that gun free zones stop being attractive/successful places for mass killings.



To all of you, gun rights supporter though I may be, I honestly dont care if guns are the answer or not. I just want not to expect to hear the word "massacre" in the same story as "gun free zone" ever again.