How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?

Photo-fish wrote: Completely serious. These maniacs have a death wish. I don't think that arming teachers will deter a crazy killer. Or adding guards. It may seem like a good idea until one of the armed teachers or guards snaps and becomes a crazy killer. Or they miss their intended target and kill a kid or get targeted themselves by law enforcement when they show up. I s'pose we might find out soon enough when eventually a crazy killer is taken down by a citizen or teacher with a CCW. I give it 6 months until the next crazy killer shows up on the news trying to top the last crazy killer.

Do you think the guy that grabbed the weapon in the cop shop and started shooting thought he was gonna get out alive?

I agree these maniacs have a death wish. Some want or need suicide by cop, some prefer a high # body count before suiciding. They seem to gravitate to soft targets.

I think that allowing teachers to carry will deter some. For the rest, I believe many more lives will be saved than lost.

If a teacher or a guard snaps and wants to go on a killing spree in a school, do you think that it will be having a legal on campus weapon that sets him off?

another good guy or in this case a gal with a gun


http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_ ... z2GOP72zBX

Nothing about a CCW in that article and it was not a mass shooting as the others have been. Other stories on this same incident has the shooter running away and hiding in the cinema bathroom and then shot by the security. Luckily the off duty deputy (with firearms training) had her weapon on hand while working at the theater. I could not condone a private citizen chasing an armed suspect into a public bathroom to engage another armed citizen. Glad nobody was killed.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/u- ... fire-in-us

Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, died in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., while 6-year-old Kammia Perry was slain by her father outside her Cleveland home, according to an Associated Press review of 2012 media reports.

Yet there was no gunman on the loose when Julio Segura-McIntosh died in Tacoma, Wash. The 3-year-old accidentally shot himself in the head while playing with a gun he found inside a car.

As he mourned with the families of Newtown, President Barack Obama said the nation cannot accept such violent deaths of children as routine. But hundreds of young child deaths by gunfire -- whether intentional or accidental -- suggest it might already have.