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Originally Posted by Etienne
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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It is because you don't understand. If I carry a gun, and hear a gun shot, I am in no way going anywhere near the shot in the middle of a bunch of people. Forget it. Its a good way to get killed is why since it would be hard to pick out who the shooter was and he might see you first. To think that one would want to get into a firefight is one that has seen one too many movies. That is our big problem in this world - media. Media has twisted and warped our minds on many subjects. I guess we and these crazies are a product of our own society.
-S