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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I can see the logic of older school kids carrying guns to class in today's Iraq or even Israel...But how do you explain that these repeated episodes of school shootings happen in the US and not other western countries with stricter gun control laws?
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To imply that this is something that only happens in the United States is disregarding the truth:
Osaka school massacre - Ikeda, Japan; 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre
Erfurt massacre - Erfurt, Germany; 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_massacre
Dawson College shooting - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting
Where I went to high school, we had a Police school resource officer, he was a visible presence and he walked the hallways with a nightstick and gun in his belt. This was not an innercity school either, it was in a city of a population of 125,000. For a high school, his presence was enough, and we were located 60 miles from Colombine.
What happened today was at a university. The people who attend are by law, adults. I beleive that if people were allowed to carry guns instead of having a "gun free zone," somebody else might have had a gun and put a bullet in this shooter's head before the death toll hit 32.