Preventing school shootings

[Beej]

From a study about gun control in britain:

Meanwhile, gun crimes in Britain are increasing. According to London's authoritative Sunday Times, the number of firearm offenses in Britain increased almost 40 percent from 4,903 in 1997 to 6,843 in 2000. These are still small figures in comparison to the United States, but the trend is the opposite of what might be expected.

It does not seem that Britain can be said to be a safer place as a result of the gun ban. The police there have traditionally gone unarmed, but the number of incidents in which police officers have had guns issued to them in recognition of potential danger increased from about 6,000 in 1994-95 to over 12,000 in 1997-8.
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And more from the surveys revealed that 23% of kids who were expelled from school (read: possible troublemakers) claimed to have had access to a gun within the last year.

Also - you can read up on this - which is a perfect case study. people felt safer, fear of crime went down, but gun crimes went up! False sense of security is just asking for trouble. Not to mention, Knife Crimes Tripled!

remember kids: knives take lives.

Were there more crimes because there were more laws preventing gun owning/carrying/use? I'd want to see statistics on what kinds of gun laws were broken in 2000 vs 1997.

"Guns don't kill people" argument is retarded. Guns certainly make crimes of ALL types a helluva lot easier.

Kaan- I don't doubt at all that there are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of responsible gun owners. And I know how biased almost any study will be, because the people that conduct it will be leaning towards one direction or the other. It's not an easy argument for either side.