In other words, parents and faculty are prohibited by Federal law from bringing a gun into or near a school. Fortunately, Principal Joel Myrick of Pearl High School, Mississippi willfully broke that law last year, leaving a pistol in his automobile parked on school grounds. When a deranged student opened fire in the school, Myrick retrieved his gun from his car, re-entered the school, and stopped the killings. None of the recently proposed gun control measures would have stopped the Columbine tragedy. A well-trained parent or teacher in the school with a pistol might have.
Criminals can commit mayhem in such areas with less fear of facing armed opposition.
The potential of facing deadly force is a powerful deterrent to criminals. That's why states with concealed carry laws consistently show a decrease of violent crimes. An armed society is a safe society, and the more gun-control measures the government passes, the more innocent people will die. Instead, the existing laws go unenforced, even as anti-gun activists clamor for more controls. Professor John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, suggested May 17 on a national radio show a possible motivation for the incessant call for more and more ineffective gun-control measures.