RPB wrote:From 1966 to 2007, 41 years, ... only 45 "school shootings" occurred. Indeed, a rare event.
From 2007 to 2011, about 3 years, another 35 or so school shootings", increasingly less rare.
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My math may be off but feel free to count
By Jon Swaine, New York 9:12PM GMT 21 Feb 2011
This is a (partial) timeline of recent shootings at American colleges dating back to the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007, when Seung-Hui Cho, a student, killed 32 people and injured another 15, in the country’s worst single act of gun violence.
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SOURCE: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
The "current system" is broken
That only goes through Oct 2010, and
"school shootings" do not even consider "non-shooting" events such as
I think this is a weak argument that opens you up to counterattack. I admire your activism with regard to gun rights, but I think you need to more carefully choose your battles. A number of the mentioned cases appear to be "normal" shootings involving drug deals gone wrong, drive-by shootings (drug related) and arguments between two people that become deadly.
Of the cases mentioned, the ones that I would classify as similar to the Virginia Tech situation and possibly affected by campus carry would be:
April 2009 – Dearborn, Michigan – A man shot and killed a female classmate and then himself at MacKenzie Fine Arts Center on the campus of Henry Ford Community College.
November 2008 – Savannah, Georgia – A 19-year-old student shot a fellow student twice after the two argued at Savannah State University October 2008 – Conway, Arkansas – Several men in a car drove up to a dormitory at the University of Central Arkansas and opened fire, killing two students and injuring a third person.
October 2008 – San Antonio, Texas – A librarian shot and killed a fellow librarian at Northeast Lakeview Community College library, where the two men worked.
July 2008 – Phoenix, Arizona – A former student shot three people in a computer lab at South Mountain Community College.
February 2008 – DeKalb, Illinois – A former graduate student armed with several guns entered a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and began shooting. He killed five students and wounded 16 before killing himself.
September 2007 – Dover, Delaware – A freshman student at Delaware State University shot and wounded two other students at a campus dining hall.
So only four of the cases listed would be comparable to Virginia Tech and, more importantly, possibly have different outcomes if campus carry was allowed.
However, the wikipedia article, I think, is a much stronger argument for campus carry at all levels. Look at the number of K-12 incidents. It's appalling that the fiction of gun free zones is still given any credence at all.
