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Violence and Schools

So, I’m sure by now, all you good readers have heard about the school shooting in Nebraska. A student shot two administrators and killed them. Perhaps, to stop these sorts of things from happening, we should make it against the law to have guns in schools. No, better, perhaps we should make it illegal to have guns anywhere near a school. Maybe we could make it a law that 17-year-olds shouldn’t be allowed to have guns. I know, let’s go with a new “zero-tolerance” law against anything that looks like a weapon at schools. That will do it for sure. No? Perhaps a law against discharging a gun on school property? A law against shooting guns in a safe manner? How about a law making it a crime to fire a gun in city limits? Make it illegal for someone under 18 to buy ammunition? Wait, I’ve got it: let’s make it against the law for people to hurt other people. In fact, let’s make it an even MORE serious crime for people who shoot other people.

As I’m sure you can imagine, all of these things are already against the law. In other words, the fellow that shot those two administrators already broke dozens and dozens of laws. I’m sure he didn’t care. This is further illustration that no matter how many laws you pass, only the lawful will follow them. In fact, if it were legal to have a gun at school, the only likely difference to this story is that the administrators might be alive today because they shot the 17-year-old who tried to kill them. Gun laws don’t help people, they kill people.

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