You're probably aware of this, but up until around the '60s, almost all schools nationwide had *rifle class* for elementary school aged kids. They had fucking *arsenals* in the schools, dozens of rifles and loads of ammunition. The teachers, including the females, knew how they operated and how to be safe with them. They'd teach the kids how they worked, and eventually let them shoot them. School shootings didn't become a problem till what, the late 80s? *Long* after all of the guns were removed from the schools. This demonstrates a simple fact: The mere presence of firearms does not cause shootings. And that's what the pearl-clutchers are always on about, that teachers shouldn't have guns because there should be *no* guns in the school. I hate this naive notion that you can just make more laws, and *that* will cause criminals to stop being criminals, or stop loonies from being loonies. **The only people that gun laws affect are people who follow the fucking law, the type of people who wouldn't just murder someone.** Brazil is a fantastic example of what happens when gun ownership is made illegal- it leads to a situation where only cops and criminals have guns, and civilians have to obtain guns and carry them "illegally", or else they're 100% at the mercy of vicious killers. Most of South America is like this.