You hit a nerve with me, Matthew. A Gun is a tool. A dangerious one yes, but still a tool that can be used for harm or good.

I completed my gun safety certification on the night of those shootings. Every one of us was shocked. Nobody in that classroom shows any signs of such behavior (of course how can you know) We all recignised as soon as we heard this that people like you would get on a soapbox and start fighting for the banning of Guns, instaed of solving the real problem. The real problem (which was touched on by a few others, but is far more complex then anyone could possibally write in the alloted space, if you could fully understand it - I don't think you can) There was a kid who pulled a trigger on a gun. The gun did not, cannot shoot byitself.

In case your not aware, it is illegal to take a gun to school. It is illegal to kill people with a gun. If I heard right (but I've been too schocked to beleive I heard right) those guns were illegal. You want anouther law as if that will stop this in the future? It won't work.

I'm shocked and horrified about these deaths. But taking away the rights of honest people to own a gun will not solve this. As the old saying goes: when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. In this world where illegal cocain makes it across the borders don't think that guns won't make it across the border to the outlaws. Maybe these kids wouldn't have gotten one, but I wouldn't want to bet my life on the inability of someone to get a gun, even if they can't there are still many ways to kill someone, including knives, bow/arrow, spear, rocks, krattie (and other hand to hand combat), hanging, and more.