This is some thing that will make you think

[nodaywithout]

[youtube:0b13da049d]http://www.youtube.com/v/QqwF5dlZheY[/youtube:0b13da049d]

[youtube:0b13da049d]http://www.youtube.com/v/vdRE-CuBms4[/youtube:0b13da049d]

[Bill of Rights]

The more basic problem is the one being missed here, though. If a gang-banger carries a weapon to school, presuming he's even IN school, he's likely spoiling for a fight and looking for a way to puff himself up in front of his "homies".
Alternatively, when the class valedictorian carries a gun because he's been threatened (maybe by one of the aforementioned gang-bangers?), and let's just throw in the additional factor that at 18, at least 11 states allow the issue of a carry permit to an 18 year old, and further, that if his parents give it to him, he can legally own a firearm,
I don't think he should be prevented from defending himself, just because he's at school.

We have to speak to the issue that none of the weapons visible in those two video clips did any harm to anyone by themselves. They all had a person behind them who pulled a trigger, drew a knife and slashed or stabbed with it, put fingers through metal knuckles and punched, etc.
We have to speak to the issue of intent. There were assaults with weapons, and there were assaults without weapons. News flash! The assaults that occurred with weapons did not happen before the law was passed forbidding weapons in schools, so the law didn't stop the crimes, it only made it possible to legally punish the violent criminal, assuming he or she was caught.
Many of the government run public schools have a policy that to fight is to earn yourself at least a suspension, even if all you did was defend yourself. That means that unless you just stand there and take it, you're punished just as your attacker is, assuming you live through the experience.

Now, I've always been told that if you notice a problem, you should offer a solution, too. I can't always do that, but I can here. How about if a weapon is found to have been used in an assault/battery/rape/murder, etc., the person doing so is tried as an adult and kept in a cage for his/her full sentence. I'd even go so far as to say that the use of a weapon to commit these crimes should automatically boost the crime up to a capital offense. No plea bargains, no excuses, no leniency. Self-defense/defense of the innocent is the only mitigating factor. That means that if the above mentioned valedictorian is assaulted one day and comes back the next with the gun and pulls it without a new, imminent threat, it's not self-defense, it's revenge, and that is not protected by law.

"But that's not fair! How can you apply one law to some and another to others?" Simple. It's one law. Initiate the attack and you're toast. Defend yourself and you're OK.

That's my view. Comments welcome.

Blessings,
M

[SnowCajun]

Wow, I can't believe how long that guy kept pulling weapons out of his cothes, that was very impressive! Thanks for sharing it. I wish I had those old brass knuckles though, I've collected those for 35 years.