From my limited knowledge, it seems that the best way to prevent school shoot outs, or just random knife fights, is to have metal detector screenings at the doors.
If you allow students to carry concealed, their purpose is defeated.
Someone on another board I frequent also brought up an interesting point. Suppose students are allowed to carry. One of them hears shot, pulls out his gun ("Yay, I'm Rambo!") and runs out in the hallway toward the sound of the shot.
Another student hears the shots, see someone running with a gun. Pulls out his own, and boom! Friendly fire!
Plus, it's not like the VT events are a common occurence. At all. A more common situation would be two students getting in an arguments, and having it escalate. Of course, no one would be stupid enough to pull a gun on someone over some petty disagreement.
Etienne
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