Earlier that morning, Woodham had stabbed his mother to death. Wurst had just killed one teacher, wounded another and two classmates. The possibility exists that attempts to outlaw guns from schools, no matter how well meaning, may have produced perverse effects. There were 19 deaths and 97 injuries in states without the law, while there was one death and two injuries in states with the law. Motor vehicle accidents, falls, fires, drownings, poisonings, suffocation, and other accidents all accounted for more deaths than did firearm accidents .
Suicide rates fluctuate independently of gun control laws and gun ownership.
In 1982, the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution evaluated the historical record, and unanimously came to the same conclusion.