Should school children be allowed to carry & conceal?

And same with college students?

Wouldn't that prevent Columbine or VT style massacres?

The motto of the NRA is: "a society where everybody has a gun is a very polite society."

Also, "I better be tried by 12 than carried by 8."

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Answer:
School children do not have the same rights as adults, they should not be allowed to carry weapons.

Schools should stop announcing they are "no gun" zones. Schools should offer weapons training for teachers %26 administrators that want it and they should be allowed to carry a weapon.

It is these insane policies that need to be changed.

We also need to be able to committ people that have mental problems (even against their will if need be) and mental health information needs to be shared with law enforcement (especially for the purposes of registering firearms).

You can never prevent people from trying to murder people but you can make it more difficult and possibly reduce the casualties.

Just these few, simple %26 common sense changes can make a huge impact.

1) Elimiante "no gun" zones
2) Allow teachers to carry weapons.
3) Change mental health policies %26 reporting to law enforcement

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Mine already do........"center mass",,,,

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Oh yeah, my 12 year old packs heat every morning right after he packs a nice sandwich and cookies, and I make sure he has milk money.

What's the matter with you?

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NO! look im all for the second amendment but i think we just need to keep the guns out of the crazies hands. Rathar than focus on makeing guns hard to get, how about focus on preventing them in places where they dont belong!

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children, no, age 5-17

The adults charged with their protection during the mandated seperation from their parents: Yes

College Students of legal age to purchase and own, Yes

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Yes, lets give all the 1st graders AK-47s. How ridiculously incompetent are you? The accidental discharge casualties would be higher than the death toll in Iraq. You are saying that we should give all the kids who are mentally unstable a weapon so when they have a bad day, they can go shoot a few people, then get shot themselves. You want to give people like the Columbine and VT shooters guns?

The NRA is a horrible organization. An society where everyone has a gun is a very polite, but extremely dangerous, society. Yes, everyone should have their fully automatic assault rifles with them at all times. Then maybe natural selection would get rid of all the people who come up with these stupid questions.

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NO...the last thing we need is to bring back old wild west justice..especially when the (kids) are in a place like school where there's alot of stress. Leave it to the authorities!! I'd be more open to teachers and instructors carrying a sidearm like air marshalls do on planes for they would be mature enough to take the weapons training seriously and use better judgement. But kids have no business with a gun in schools!!

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It seams sadly that only in America could such a question be asked and even sadder that it is thought that everybody carrying weapons makes for a safer place.
Please wake up America and stop wasting the lives of your young people just to appease the gun lobby.

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although i have a carry permit for my compact 45, i would certainly not allow my prescooler to take it to school with her!! however, i do think that any full-grown, non-mental case, who can pass an extensive background check, and complete an intensive gun safety class should be able to carry a concealed gun anywhere withing reason, including a college campus! i would definitely rather be tried by tweleve than carried by eight!