Random school shootings are coming more and more often and everybody is wondering why they do it and, more importantly, how we can stop them. Its time to take drastic measures. Its time to take a hard look at real world examples of what works.
A small town in Florida was dealing with a rapid increase in violent crime. The city council decided to create a new ordinance that required every citizen to carry a weapon. They did not have to load it and the police did not enforce the ordinance, but those who had a desire to did begin carrying concealed weapons. Almost overnight, the violent crime rate fell very near to nill. Removing all guns literally creates an environment that provokes violent crime, while making them more available actually greatly reduces violence.
The advocacy of gun free zones, especially posting a sign describing these zones as such in schools, malls, fast food restaurants, they might as well have posted; Gunmen, Nobody Here Will Resist You! Everywhere personal firearms are banned, violent crime rates have skyrocketed. Why? Because the crooks know that there will likely be no force prepared to repel them, not only gun violence but also knife attacks, baseball bat attacks, etc., Why wouldn't they? After all, they are crooks. Personally, I wouldn't prefer being killed or attacked by knife or baseball bat over a gun.
With kids finding access to guns and with the absence of guidance in dealing with failure and frustration in the liberal Western culture and with the news giving these stories all the attention theses kids desire for the ultimate statement, create a recipe for repeated horror stories. This feeds the news industry so they have no incentive to correct their lack of ethics any more than the kids have any incentive to seek a different outlet to express their frustration.
The only answer left is to require every authority figure in the schools to conceal carry, from the Dean to the custodian. The only answer to runaway violent crime is to require everybody to take responsibility for the defense of themselves and their charges. In the same way we force kids to take driver training, we should force every adult to take gun safety courses and allow them to have the tools and if they have charges, require them to carry the tools. When crooks are faced with even odds of survival or death vs. uneven odds in favor of success, they naturally weigh the opportunity to gain or force their will on the innocent against the likelihood of dieing instead of (usually long after the crime) merely getting caught, convicted, and spending time in confinement. (often considered a badge of honor in their peer group) For the nutso facto element perpetrating terror on schools and other so-called gun free zones, the news report of a shootout just doesn't carry the same glory as the nation-wide coverage of another loan gunman randomly shooting students and faculty.
The insanity of the current mindset of progressive Western culture that guns, gun dealers, and gun makers are guilty of dealing death, at the same time they fight for the preservation of the gun wielders who do these great acts of evil who were caught, convicted, and sentenced to death creates the environment that provokes and promotes irresponsible conduct. Only a moral idiot can advocate gun control, preservation of guilty and evil perpetrators and condemn the makers and dealers who provide tools for self defense. With great power comes great responsibility. With the nanny state (powerlessness) comes great irresponsibility. With responsibility comes great consequences. Without responsibility, there are greater consequences. With great consequence comes caution and a serious life outlook, not necessarily applied with any wisdom. Passions run high whichever side of this issue you are on but only one side looks at the evidence for what works rather than emoting an oversimplified cure-all. If you don't want to carry, then don't, let the grownups deal with the evil. But don't equate the grownups with the terrible evil doers just because they use the same deadly tools.