GuitarMikeB wrote:So you think its safe to have a bunch of loaded weapons in a grade school, where there is always the possibility of a kid grabbing one accidentally (or not accidentally)? Or one slips out of a holster or purse, hits the floor and goes off because the person forget to put on the safety? Or a kid picks up the 'misplaced' gun and proceeds to shoot all his classmates at recess because 'it's just a game', like on tv ...
Or is better to make it hard/impossible for a mentally unstable person to get his hands on a weapon? (I didn't say ban guns.)
Sorry. I guess you are correct in your assumption that a bunch of kids would mob a teacher and take his gun. Although I imagine that there would be strict rules, such as wearing a holster that has a good latch and having it concealed, after all, isn't that what concealed means..out of sight? And if it is out of sight, how would a student even know? But then again, I guess that having some armed guy break into a school and kill a bunch of kids knowing no one is armed would be a much more sensible approach. By the way, do you know that statistics show that places where warnings that guns are not allowed have more gun violence because people that want to kill people are basically cowards at heart? This school was a posted gun free zone. Should police officers be unarmed when going into a school? After all, what if their gun fell our of its holster? Or any of your above reasonings?
So why not both? Sometimes the mentally ill show no signs until they snap. And your answer to that would be? I know what the answers were in the past. All manner of statements such as. He was a wonderful neighbor and a quiet man, who would have figured? I guess I couldn't even count all the times I heard people that knew someone who snapped reply in like manner.
The bottom line is that you can take ALL the guns, make them impossible to legally purchase, and the bad guys will still get them. Get rid of all the guns on the planet and guys with lathes will make them in their basements. Some kids make zip guns in school. They willkill you as easily as any manufactured gun.