By bringing a deadly weapon to school, the teenage boy violated federal firearms laws, probably also state firearms laws, and school policies. Attackers know that they will never face armed resistance in a school. The same groups have frequently supported rights for convicted criminals, such as extensive judicial appeals and comfortable prisons. JPFO members and other rights defenders must take the ideas from this alert and send brief letters to their local newspapers and legislators and governors. Deliberate government policies have made the recent attacks on school kids both possible and easy.
Violent criminals can assume the average person is defenseless.
Second, the federal government prohibits people from having guns for self-defense in or near any school. Criminals can safely trust that schools are undefended places to attack. Third, the government has failed to provide police protection to school kids. Fourth, the courts have ruled that the government has no legal duty to protect anyone. Because they have no legal duty, government schools spend little or no money on protecting against violence.