Questions on School Shootings

Like many other people, I have questions about the tragedy that occurred on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado. Many are asking questions regarding the specific circumstances surrounding this particular massacre, such as the motivation and psychological history of the killers. My questions are ones that we should be asking of ourselves if we do not want this disturbing trend to continue. I offer my sincere condolences to those who lost family members or friends in this schoolyard massacre.

• Thanks to compulsory attendance laws, our children are required to attend school. Thanks to the coercive method in which government schools are funded, it is very difficult for parents to send their children to private schools, and not every parent is cut out to home school. Since the sole purpose of a legitimate government is to protect citizens from the aggressive acts of others, why weren't these students protected? Is any government that develops a system that turns children into targets a legitimate one?
  
  
• Why are these massacres occurring only at government schools?
  
  
• Are you aware that courts have repeatedly ruled that the police have no obligation to protect you or your children?
  
  
• The Secret Service's most high profile duty is protecting the physical safety of the President. Governors have a contingent of State Troopers that have a specific duty to protect them. The Capitol police have the same responsibility towards members of Congress. There are armed guards at the entrance of Federal Buildings, presumably for the protection of the building's occupants. Why aren't our children afforded the same level of protection? Are we saying that the lives of politicians are more important than the lives of our children? Does anyone besides me view it hypocritical when these same politicians insist that we must give up our freedoms "for the children?"
  
  
• Why isn't the NEA pushing for allowing teachers to carry handguns to defend themselves and their students?
  
  
• Prior to the National Firearms Act of 1934, there weren't any restrictions on firearm ownership. Why weren't we plagued with school-shootings before 1934, given that it was not uncommon for private citizens to own fully automatic machine guns brought back from Europe after WWI?
  
  
• Several decades ago, students sometimes brought their rifles to school because they were either going hunting after school, or because they were working on them in shop class. Why didn't this result in school-shootings?
  
  
• Why do the US cities that have the strictest "gun control" laws have the largest problem with violent crime?
  
  
• Professor John Lott of the University of Chicago has produced definitive evidence that liberalized concealed carry laws result in a decrease in violent crime rates to include reducing the number of fatalities that result from multi-victim shootings, such as school-shootings. Why haven't 19 US States or the Federal Government acted upon the findings of Lott's study?
  
  
• In every school shooting case, the perpetrator(s) were not legally permitted to possess firearms. Furthermore, it is illegal to bring firearms onto school grounds. And of course, murder is illegal in all 50 States and in the District of Columbia, and is sometimes punishable by death. What good is another law going to do, when it has been demonstrated time and again that criminals, by definition, do not obey laws?
  
  
• How would a waiting period have prevented this crime?
  
  
• Why doesn't the media or politicians reveal how Israel solved its school-shooting problem?
  
  
• If guns are a contributing factor to violent crime, then why aren't there any massacres at gun shows?
  
  
• Why is it when someone misuses a gun, politicians and government supremacists want to take guns away from the people who didn't do anything wrong?
  
  
• The government response to this tragedy is going to be yet more restrictive laws regulating private ownership of guns, despite the fact that more laws obviously won't solve the problem. Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result." Vice-President Al Gore used this quote in a 1992 debate. Does this mean that our firearm laws are written by insane people?
  
  
• Why can't the victim disarmament crowd (gun control advocates) point out a single instance of "gun control" laws working, without resorting to dishonesty? And why isn't their credibility diminished when their laws fail miserably? Does anyone think that they may have another agenda other than public safety?
  
  
• Those who denigrate our right to self-defense will cite the "easy availability of guns" as a contributing factor to these tragedies. When was the last time one of these people actually bought a gun? Has anyone ever asked them if they even know how one goes about purchasing a gun from a Federal Firearm Licensee? Do they even know what a Federal Firearm Licensee is?
  
  
• Why aren't the gun grabbers being told "Your policies have caused many lives to be needlessly lost. We did it your way, and the problem got worse. Shut the hell up"?
  
  
• As I write this, Sarah Brady, Dennis Hennigan, and their ilk are already calling for further restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens. When will these ghouls be taken to task for using the blood of murdered children to further their political agenda?