School shootings FACTS:

1. No amount of gun control would have stopped Charles Carl Roberts
from acquiring guns to commit his atrocity. Roberts had a clean
record and would have passed any and every background check.

2. So-called "gun free zones" (such as school zones) never stop bad
guys from taking guns into a restricted area. In fact, statistics
show that the jurisdictions that ban guns tend to be the same areas
with the highest murder or crime rates (Washington, D.C., England,
etc.).

3. The only school shootings that have been stopped prematurely were
ended because law-abiding citizens had guns -- such as in Pearl
Mississippi (1997) and at the Appalachian School of Law (2002), where
faculty and students were able to bring their own defensive firearms
to bear. For this reason, 85% of the American public find it
appropriate for a principal or teacher to use "a gun at school to
defend the lives of students" to stop a school massacre (Research
2000 Poll).