Bill D is right. The weapons have been around too long, there is no way to squeeze them out of the culture. They'll just turn up somewhere else on the black market.

The students should have been armed so they could take out the shooter.

And take out other students in the process. Nothing like a group of excited people with handguns to go from one disaster to another, larger one. Nope. But at least take away the automatic and semi-automatic weapons. No one needs those.

SRS