What the author conveniently overlooks is that one of the first school shooters, Luke Woodham at Pearl, Ms. High School, was stopped from continuing his slaughter by an assistant principal who went out to his car, retrieved his own pistol, and subdued the assailant with it. What the author also conveniently overlooks is that if someone is determined to turn their school into a shooting gallery, a simple rule against carrying a firearm onto campus will not be much of a deterent. Look how much weight the rules against firearms at Columbine H.S. stopped Klebold and Harris.