Quote: DaButt @ June 21 2011, 12:32 PM BSTColumbine was a high school so students couldn't lawfully be armed but if teachers had been allowed to be armed a lot of lives may have been saved that day.
DaButt, I can see your logic and it's a fair point, but it's skewed also in that even had the teachers been armed, who's to say they would have got to their weapons on time? too many factors come into play in a pressured situation like that...it was never going to be a fair fight no matter how hard the teachers tried.
The big problem is the crazy guy with the gun, in someones elses hands that gun would not have done any killing...so having guns easily available in the first place is what worries me, while the average Joe in your country may have a legally allowed gun under the bed for protection , so too there is the angry homicidal bugger with his legally acquired weapon. Do people have to pass any assessments before they are allowed to own a gun?