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Written by Mike Kinsey   
Thursday, 11 October 2007
I continue to pray for the victims and their families of the most recent Cleveland SuccessTech school shooting. Ohioans are now forced to look in our own backyard at these ghastly school tragedies that seem to be sweeping the nation. It is time for real solutions to be explored in order to protect our children.

Many people will say that these shootings are proof that we need "more common sense gun control laws." What specific laws would have stopped this deranged killer? We must consider the fact that current laws prohibit anyone under 21 from acquiring a handgun, prohibit guns on school grounds, prohibit carrying guns without a license, prohibit firing guns in city limits, and last but certainly not least... we have laws that prohibit murder. What magical new law will stop future school shootings and keep our children safe?

Psychotic criminals seek soft targets where they can inflict the most damage. Please close your eyes and think of every mass shooting that has occurred over the past few years: Columbine, an Amish school in Pennsylvania, Virginia Tech, and now SuccessTech in Cleveland. Next, recall how many mass shootings have occurred in police stations or NRA conventions. Is that a coincidence? "No Guns Zones" in schools and elsewhere attract mass shootings. They obviously do not prevent them.

Real solutions do exist if we are strong enough to seek them. Israel was plagued with school violence from terrorists in the 1970's until they trained responsible school officials to be armed. Those attacks stopped as terrorists sought easier targets.

In 1997, Vice Principal Joel Myrick of Pearl, Mississippi saved countless lives by retrieving a legally owned handgun from his truck in the school parking lot and confronting a shooter in his school. Mr. Myrick never fired a shot and safely held the shooter until police arrived.

We must follow this historical proof and allow trained, licensed, responsible adults to have the means to meet force with force anywhere. Feel-good legislation that criminals will continue to ignore is not the answer. Our children deserve real solutions.