A terrible precedent is being set with guns in public places...

[Flatulo]

173. I think a large part of the 'terrible suffering and anxiety' that the presence of a BB gun causes is

due to the ridiculous over-reaction of the authorities. A SWAT team and a full evacuation is a hell of a lot scarier than a BB gun.

Sometimes the adults in this world act like idiots. There was an incident over a 7 y/o boy eating a pop tart in the shape of an 'L'. There have been a few incidents where the authorities were summoned over a kid drawing something that may have looked like a gun. On a piece of paper. That's just insane.

The adults need to be able to differentiate a real threat from a nothing. If they can't, then we need to replace them with smarter adults.

On edit: In case you didn't read my other posts in this thread, I do not think its OK to openly carry a firearm anywhere, most especially onto school grounds. I brought up the issue of aggressive dogs because they, too cause a lot of injuries and deaths, even when leashed. Have you ever tried to resist the force of a strong dog pulling on the leash? Unless you're a bodybuilder, any dog over 60 lbs or so can surprise you and drag you anywhere he wants to go. We can't completely eliminate risk from our lives, so we try to manage it as best as we can. Part of that management strategy includes prohibiting the presence of firearms on school property (a policy that has been violated in exactly 100% of school shootings, I would point out), so it seems to me that the policy doesn't in fact prevent any violence, but instead merely prevents panic.