Too bad a teacher and/or administrator didn't have ready access to firearms so they could have possibly stopped this nutcase early on.
Gun-Free Zones = Victim RICH Environments
EXACTLY! I was talking with my wife last night about this and other types of gun crimes. The knee jerk reaction by politicians (on both sides, seemingly) is that "we need to make a new law". And as I pointed out to my wife, anecdotally, no law will ever stop a crimal from committing a crime.
The thing to do is arm the population (not necessarily literally) with the possibility that he or she can be packing at anytime, anywhere. When a criminal knows, for certain, that the law abiding citizen CANNOT legally be 'concealing/carrying' then EVERYONE is a mark.
Planting a little doubt in the crimnal and empowering the law abiding citizen is the way to go. And besides, we all know (or should know) that most criminals don't obtain guns by legal means anyway.