"Don't take your guns to town..."

And keep them off my campus too please.

Another post-secondary educational institution shooting incident, breaking news:

"A female student shot two other women and herself Friday morning inside a classroom on the campus of Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge, authorities said..."

Thus, as a college instructor (I know, can ya believe it, me? a college instructor? that's crazy talk!), I am far more concerned about ways to stop nuts like these from shooting up my workplace (and potentially me, my colleagues, and students...) than I am with "fighting the war on terror in Iraq", etc. How can we stop these? I tend to think that we should have some kind of gun control, since it seems to work in England. On the other hand, I am sympathetic to sane, rational (i.e. people who aren't "gun nuts" or stereotypical NRA supporters) who want to have the right to own and carry a firearm so long as they comply with all the relevant laws. My understanding of the issues that affect this issue barely scratches the surface, so I really don't have much to say. I wonder if these mentally unstable people that go on shooting rampages have legally obtained their guns or not...