In an ideal world, no one could quarrel with Rose Nolen’s recent columns opposing firearms in schools. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world.
The psychos who target students in schools and colleges — where the vast majority of mass shootings have occurred — do so for a couple of reasons. The first relates to the concentration of targets in a small space, where the most people can be killed in a short time.
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