By the way, I haven't read this whole topic, and probably won't, but from the first couple of pages, this is one of the few cases where I'm in full agreement with GarMan and GH2001.
I'm sure somewhere along the line, the cliche's have been hashed out, but they're true.
Ban guns and only criminals will have guns. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
I've got to believe that many of these massacres in gun-free zones could be prevented, or in the very least minimalized, had there been someone armed to cut their sprees short.