wonderful, right up your alley, ha ... didn't read the article but I am gonna go out on a limb here and say that this lawmaker is a republican - best medicine for having too many guns out there is putting even more guns in unqualified hands.
That will sure solve the problem - instead of school shootings by students or outsiders, now we are gonna have to deal with shooting carried out by pissed off teachers, driven to the edge and beyond by undisciplined students. Guess that's one way to weed off the bad seeds early on.
so, which one is it gonna be - now we turn the teachers into commandos or turn the commandos into teachers? Well, considering we are at the back of the line in education, we might as well put the good old special forces vets to good use after retirement. That PTSD thing might be a bit of an issue but that will probably keep them on the edge with quicker trigger-reaction times.
There you go, problem solved, the republican/tea-bagger way
what a beautiful pro-gun argument conveniently forgetting about the mass shootings carried out by people 21 or older like that theater shooting in Colorado or the Virginia Tech shooting, where those nutjobs bought their guns - some automatics in there too, iirc - from the shop, legally, just days earlier. And that's just to scratch the surface.
Or, say a number of other school shootings, like Colombine iirc, where the student-shooters got the guns from their parents (legally possessed guns, mind you).
But hey some guy on a forum somehow managed to make a half-assed, most likely poorly informed argument, as details are still pretty sketchy, how this particular shooting couldn't have been prevented by strict gun control, so screw the other 1000+ that could have and hip-hip-hooray to the NRA.