What do you gun control advocates make of this?

Interesting story. A lot of Pro-Gun John Wayne wanna-be's love these stories. They think it makes an argument for looser gun controls. Many of them will even say "gun control doesn't work", this merely shows that they live entirely engrossed in their own small minded, ill-educated little community. All over the world are countries who DO have Gun Control, and have never had a massacre like those in the US schools.

A little history for you........

October 2006: A 32-year-old gunman shoots dead at least five girls at an Amish school in Pennsylvania, before killing himself

September 2006: Gunman in Colorado shoots and fatally wounds a teenage schoolgirl, then kills himself; two days later a teenager kills the headteacher of a school in Cazenovia, Wisconsin

November 2005: Student in Tennessee shoots dead an assistant principal and wounds two other administrators

March 2005: Minnesota schoolboy kills nine, then shoots himself

May 2004: Four people injured in shooting at a school in Maryland

April 2003: Teenager shoots dead head-teacher at a Pennsylvania school, then kills himself

March 2001: Pupil opens fire at a school in California, killing two students

February 2000: Six-year-old girl shot dead by classmate in Michigan

November 1999: Thirteen-year-old girl shot dead by a classmate in New Mexico

May 1999: Student injures six pupils in shoot-out in Georgia

April 1999: Two teenagers shoot dead 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine School in Colorado

June 1998: Two adults hurt in shooting by teenage student at high school in Virginia

May 1998: Fifteen-year-old boy shoots himself in the head after taking a girl hostage

May 1998: Fifteen-year-old shoots dead two students in school cafeteria in Oregon

April 1998: Fourteen-year-old shoots dead a teacher and wounds two students in Pennsylvania

March 1998: Two boys, 11 and 13, kill four girls and a teacher in Arkansas

December 1997: Fourteen-year-old boy kills three students in Kentucky

October 1997: Sixteen-year-old boy stabs mother, then shoots dead two students at school in Mississippi, injuring several others

As an example, take the UK, or Ireland and search for statistics on the Per Capita level of Gun crime compared to the US. It shows to anyone not close minded and desperate to support their own lust for weapons of death, that gun control seems to work damn well in any country that takes it seriously.

After Irelands Civil war and war of independence every household in the country had guns, the first government of the new state had the guts and brains to outlaw them entirely, it took several years and a few protests, but now at 30, having lived in many of the cities in Ireland at one time or another, I have never even seen a gun in my entire life. Shootings are rare and far between and nearly always between two criminals, no innocents involved. Why? Because it's nearly impossible to get a gun here. Here in a fight outside a pub, tempers flare a few punches are thrown, thats it, in the states tempers flare.. and chances are at least one of the guys involved has a loaded gun in his car...

There are always nut jobs intent on doing harm to others. If they don't have guns, they will devise a sarin gas for use in a closed environment, use machetes and slash dozens who will bleed to death, put poison in the cafeteria food, and other ways of killing that only loonatics can devise. Are gun ban fanatics going to be able to stop those bent on killing but who don't have guns?,

A couple of things.

First, you cannot stop someone who has complete disregard for his own life and is intent on killing. Innocent people will still die, as they did in your story.

Second, a 14-year old comes to school with a gun and starts shooting. You are an adult with a gun. Are you truly prepared to kill a child? Do we want to train our teachers to be able to kill children?

gun ban proponents hate stories like this because it shows how strict gun control doesn't work. mass shootings always seem to happen in "gun free zones" because the criminals always know no one will return fire. Makes tons of sense to me.

They wouldn't have had to stop him from shooting people if he didn't have a gun. FACT.