More guns on campus?!?

This is in response to a classmates blog, Guns on Campus.

I could not disagree with you more on this issue. I don't believe the answer to violence is more violence and I don't believe the answer to guns on campus is MORE guns on campus. The solution must begin before a gunman brings a weapon or weapons to school. There are warning signs to look out for and they need to be taken seriously. In a report done by CBS news a former Virgina Tech professor Lucinda Roy writes in her new book that she saw warning signs before the shootings but they were ignored. "Roy contacted four different departments on campus, including the counseling center and university police. She was desperate for Cho to get help. But, "I was told that - that would never happen," Roy said.

Statistics show a direct correlation between gun ownership and gun death rates. The chart above shows that states with higher gun ownership have much higher percentages of gun deaths. Inversely, low gun ownership equals low gun death rate. This was a news report from Violence Policy Center, based on data released for year 2006 from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division Center for Injury Prevention and Control.


So no, I don't believe the answer is the throw more guns at the problem, more guns means more people killed at the hands of gunmen.