If the students had guns, this wouldn't have even been conceived of by the shooter. Why not? Because in order to have guns in the hands of virtually all the students, the whole mindset of all of them would change. There would be a strong embedded respect for each other, just so that they could live with each other without fear. A shooter would know this, or he would be dead before he could do much damage. --- All this setting of shooters against students - a thing propagated by the Left - is going to backfire on the Left, once the people realize that the only one who is going to protect you successfully is yourself with your own gun.