[jjm2111]

But, according to medical research, guns in the home are more often used to kill a family member than to be used in self-defense [Journal of Trauma, 1998.]

Yea! Discredited statistics. However, what concerns me about school shootings is what drives kids to kill?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Help me out, I know that study is bullcrap, but what exactly was the problem in their methodology? I can't remember, but believe it was bogus even when just examining instances where guns were fired(of course, if we add in the fact that 98% of times when a gun is used in self-defense it is never fired, the study is completely shot to smitherenes, so to speak.)

[GovernmentShrinker]

Statistically, schools with over 1000 students have a significantly higher incidence of shootings. Of the 3 school shootings this week, 2 schools had over 100 students, including the middle school (can't recall which high school had under 1000). Common sense should tell us that adolescents and teens (and even many adults) are not psychologically equipped to deal with these unnatural mob scenes on a daily basis.