You see all those done during 1994-2004? All those were done during the strictest gun control times I know of, under the Assault Weapon Ban.
It really pisses me off that people do this, and it makes me feel a hell of a lot less safe at school than I would otherwise, they have a paper up on the billboard saying how they expect the students not to have weapons on campus, I can't help but think that all the people at most of those schools expected that as well. Not counting the Appalachian school of law shooting, that one I know for sure the gunman was held at gunpoint by two students until the police got there.
Some people are just fucked up in the head I suppose. I am very glad that at least in this one, nobody died but the shooter, knock on wood. I suppose it sounds cold of me, like I don't care about the shooter, but lets face it, this was a big way to commit suicide, a lot of people that go on shooting sprees end up suiciding, much more than escape or get killed by someone else, that I know of, at least. The one time I can think of in the past few years that the gunman got away was the two church shootings in Colorado last year, he suicided on the scene of the second one, after he had been shot by a woman with a concealed carry license who had asked the pastor to be allowed to carry a gun there.
Now, I know there will be people that disagree with me completely on this, but knowing that the college I plan on going to allows people to carry concealed weapons on campus makes me feel a lot better.
Interestingly, overall crime has gone down since the mid-eighties (I believe, somewhere around there), in the US at least, but we have had a lot more shootings since then.
I am trying to keep this within Troll's requirements, but it is a very thin line to trod.
