All schools should be gun free zones.

As it stands there are five categories which designate the legislation in each state. Three states are have legislation making guns allowed by law these states are Idaho, Colorado and Utah. If you notice all of these states have never had a gun massacre in a school. The next set of states have legislation which makes it legal to carry a gun in school but the individual schools reserve the right to limit the locations allowed and who carries. These states include Texas, Oregon, Kansas, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Mississippi. Again there is a striking fact that sticks out none of these states have had a gun massacre in a school. The last three categories are based on the idea that guns are banned from schools or it is up to the school to decide weapons policy. When talking about gun control no one ever has a problem with the police caring around a gun. If the police can why cant any law abiding citizen who has gone through the necessary training to acquire there concealed carry license. As the opposition has pointed out school shootings are tragic things and should not be allowed. Examining the facts of the matter however allowing guns of campuses would subtract from the overall likelihood that a school shooting would happen. I am advocating for only legal gun owners who are legally allowed to carry to be permitted to have a gun at school. Under federal regulation this means having gone through a federal background check and also taken the federal gun safety class needed to acquired a concealed carry licenses. What most do not understand is a concealed licenses does not permit open carry or the iconic gun on your hip, whether an individual decides he or she wants to open carry should be left up to the school and individual. Making schools gun free zones does not mean that it is impossible for a school shooting not to happen. Criminals no not listen to or obey the laws so by nature any standing laws do not matter. If a criminal wants to go kill as many people as possible where would they go? Well any logical person could see that the best place they could go would be a gun free school. This is do to the fact that there would be little to no retaliation at least until the police showed up. If a criminal were to go to a school that allowed adults to carry there would be direct retaliation and it is less likely the criminal would succeed in killing the most people with no opposition. As it has been reiterated in the media the only thing that stops a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. Look at the police or military for proof of this, who stops criminals with guns, police also with guns. A gun by nature is not soly designed to kill. They have become much more then that, guns have become instruments of protection and entertainment. While guns do kill people one cannot deny that they also protect people from being murdered. This protective nature is why guns would be a deterrent and help stop school shooting massacres. Most statistical data on gun control uses the term mass shootings which my opponent used. There is no legal umbrella term for this, there is major disagreement on what is classified as a mass shooting. So to make the debate easier I will give a definition that can be used. A mass shooting is a crime that happens when more then five people are wounded or killed and the culprit does not claim to be a terrorist or in a gang. So to simplify this a mass shooting cannot be gang related or a terrorist attack. Under this definition the events of sandy hook cannot be thought as a mass shooting because the culprits both claimed to be an ISIS sleeper group. It is hard to give a general overview and acquire data on mass shootings because everyone has different standards for what a mass shooting is. As it stands the USA had 133 mass shootings from 2010-2014 however when you adjusted for the sheer population of the United States you get .31 rate per 100,000 citizens for mass shootings. This is compared with Norway, Finland and Switzerland who's rates are .78,1.94 and .40 death per every 100,000 in mass shootings in the same time period. This is pushed even further by the fact that all three of these countries have outright banned guns. In conclusion to all of these fact further that guns should be allowed in schools for the safety of the children. The one argument I have neglected to speak on is the silver bullet of the Pro argument. That is the simple fact that with the exception of luby's all mass shootings in the past 30 years have happened in gun free zones. This is blatant proof that those who intend to kill aim for these zones. This is obviously due to the fact that in a gun free zone no one can actually defend themselves against an assailant. From this it is made obvious the last thing America needs is more gun free zones and more grieving parents over the loss of their children in a mass shooting because no one was allowed to defend themselves and others. Cites used: http://www.citylab.com...