To put this into perspective, one needs to know that more children are killed in swimming pools and on bicycles than by guns. Of course, to admit that, is to admit that gun violence is not the problem the anti-civil rights zealots want the public to believe it is. The truth is guns save lives. Guns are used 2.5 million times a year to defend citizens against criminals. The Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey shows that women are 2.5 times more likely to successfully fend of an attempted rape if they resist with a gun.
Guns prevent crime and save lives in schools too.
In fact, armed citizens have stopped more school killings than the police have. He was preparing to leave the high school and kill children at a nearby junior high school, when assistant principal Joel Myrick ran to his car, got his handgun, ran back into the school, confronted and disarmed the killer, and held him until the police finally arrived five minutes later. Shortly after Joel Myrick saved untold lives with his hand gun, James Strand, a local businessman, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, stopped a deranged teenager who had already killed one teacher and wounded a teacher and two students. Mr. Strand confronted the killer using his personal shotgun, and forced him to surrender. He then held the killer for police.