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Originally Posted by Amorphous.
Whenever things like this happen, I am guilty of always bringing it back to the gun debate, because if someone goes in and shoots someone else, that wouldn't happen if someone hadn't have had the means, if someone could just walk in and grab a firearm.
People get unstable and if they have the means to shoot someone, if they have a firearm with them, it's damn well going to happen.
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Not to get too deep into the gun debate, but the flip side of that is that if responsible individuals (say a principal) were to be carrying, this might not have gone as far as it did. Statistics have shown that civilian carry does not tend to cause higher crime rates, and in some cases actually lowers them.
Anyway, as someone who works as part of the juvenile justice system, I have to agree with the person who said it is a people problem, not a weapon problem. Events like this aren't prevented by banning things, they are prevented by recognizing warning signs and catching it before it happens.