Godspeed to the children killed and prayers o the families of those affect in CT.
But your point about guns is spot on.
From Shot in the Dark:
Another deranged gunman has cut loose in another building full of people forbidden from being able to defend themselves and the children in their “care” by federal law.
Initial reports indicate the gunman – who was killed, somehow – was the father of one of the students.
How many more children need to die before we realize “gun free zones” don’t work?
UPDATE: Count up the number of school shootings we’ve seen in the past decade and a half, including two in Minnesota (with 11 dead) – all in “gun free zones”. What was that “definition of insanity” again?
In Israel, in the seventies, there were a number of attacks by terrorist gunmen on Israeli schools and school buses. The Israelis responded…how? By banning guns in schools, just to keep the law-abiding terrorists in line?
No. They allowed (and on field trips, required) teachers to be armed. And it worked. And it’s still working.
Link:http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=32394
An example from Israel:
In Gush Etzion, southeast of Jerusalem, two Palestinian gunmen wearing IDF uniforms burst into the Makor Haim yeshiva high school. Wielding guns and knives, they lightly injured two Israeli counselors before being shot dead.
The terrorists infiltrated Makor Haim, a kibbutz, sneaking into the main building of its high school seminary, run by world-renowned Talmudist, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. The terrorists entered a library room where seven of the boarding school’s counselors were meeting. Dressed as security guards, and armed with a knife and what appeared to be a gun — it later turned out to be a toy — ordered the seven to line up on one side of the room. A counselor, realizing they were terrorists, drew his personal firearm and opened fire. Another grabbed the fake gun from the other terrorist, wrestled him to the floor, while the first counselor shot him. The terrorists managed to stab two of the counselors before falling dead.
At the same time, the Beit Medrash (study hall) — adjacent to the library — was packed with students taking part in the weekly Thursday night “mishmar” all-night Torah study session, Israel National News reported.
An army official praised the quick response of the students and their counselors. “This could have ended much worse,” a source in the Central Command said.
Worst violent incident (excluding shooting/guns/etc) to school children happened in New London, Texas in 1937 when a gas buildup in the school basement exploded killing more than 295 students and teachers. The aftermath was the devolpment of an oderizer to give warning. Gas has no smell that’s why the oderizer was formulated. More at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
Aside from that I can’t really think of any serious mass shootings in Michigan which is a gun heavy state.
Bump for later. Thanks for the info.
fer home
BTT
168 killed April 19, 1995 in the Oklahoma City and no shots were fired.