Jeff, you can find just as many anecdotal incidents for the opposite argument. You can also find many more instances of people being accidentally injured or killed or robbed of their own guns. It is extremely easy for people who want to carry weapons to carry them, if they can pass a background check. I know some extremely hotheaded people with no common sense at all who have CCWs. That scares the hell out of me.
If you force all teachers to be armed, what happens when a teacher is like me and KNOWS that no matter what, they could not pull that trigger and take another human life? What do you do when a teenage boy physically overtakes a teacher and steals her gun and then uses it on her and the other kids in her classroom?
The frequency of mass shootings has dropped adipimiz. You may find this article interesting.
http://news.discovery.com/history/ma...ry-121220.html
I think they seem more frequent because we have all these 24 hour news coverage sources and the world in general is smaller as a result.
Everybody carrying a gun everywhere they go isn't the answer. Nobody having guns ever isn't the answer. There is no answer. The world is imperfect. These kinds of things are going to happen. It is sad, it is awful. Some stuff in this world is sad and awful.
Our mental health system does stink. Nobody wants to pay for mental health treatment. If it was better, these things could still happen.