Gun bans in the USA is a red herring argument.

There are somewhere between 250 million and 420 million registered and unregistered firearms in the USA.

OK, they pass a gun ban then what? Start a war on guns and start knocking on citizens' doors to take their legally registered firearms ... How may gun deaths do you think that will achieve?

10K 20K 30K 50K -- that would start a civil war here.

I am sorrowful of the mass killings of innocent schoolchildren by a nutcase with guns. The guy who lit the house on fire and laid in ambush for the firefighters was a shitstain ex-murderer that should have never been paroled -- as a convicted murderer he was banned from holding a firearm -- what good did it do? He had killed his grandmother with a hammer I read so he was a confirmed psycho-killer and is a best case argument for capital punishment.

We have a large number of returning soldiers from overseas -- why not station them on guard duty in schools? A friendly soldier patrolling with a machine gun for public protection is not such a bad thing in these circumstances notwithstanding posse comitatus concerns that would have to be addressed.

Arming teachers is a bad idea. When I think back to my schooldays I can't think of many teachers that I would have trusted carrying pistols ...