The National Center for Health Statistics reports that guns killed 30,708 people in 1998. Fifty-six percent of those deaths were suicides. Since 1998, recurring incidents of gun violence and threats of violence on school campuses, in the workplace and in communities throughout the nation have increased the public’s consciousness of the presence of violence in American society. The consciousness that violence occurs unexpectedly has given rise to wide spread concern and even anxiety wherein citizens question, "Could this happen in my school, at my workplace or in my community?" In recent years, tens of thousands of people across the nation,...