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Exactly. Guns are not the issue. Whether there are more guns or less guns is not going to stop anyone from committing mass murder if they really want to do it. We can't create a society with no guns, as they say, the cat's out of the bag, someone's going to have them and I'd much rather everyone have them than only the government. It's much better to have an armed citizenry in which there are rare illegal shootings than a government with guns and a citizenry with none. Governments are much more dangerous with power.
No laws can prevent this type of incident. Mass murder is already illegal and the murderers typically intend to die anyway, so anything that happens after they start shooting is irrelevant. Arming everyone in class is terribly impractical, but I agree that if someone meets state standards for concealed carry it should be legal to carry in schools, or at least any public institutions. Why anyone would be qualified to carry a gun in certain public places and not in others was always a mystery to me.
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