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I've said this before, and I'm saying it again now. I pray this is the last time I'll have to say it.

There is only one surefire way to prevent school shootings. As much as I wish it involved reform of our educational institutions, I think that would help the problem but not completely eliminate it.

Here's how it would have to go:

Any person who makes, sells, imports, or gives away a gun which is not for the direct and sole use of the Armed Forces or legally recognized law enforcement has so violated the social contract that he or she has committed a capital offense, and the government would be within its rights to execute them. However, because the United States is above killing people just because they are no longer rights-bearers, we're going to put them in the worst, dankest, darkest prison the most sadistic minds in our nation can think up. It's going to be a lonely, miserable awful existence with no hope or expectation of rehabilitation - all the other prisons should be designed in such a way that people come out of them capable of being honest citizens, but in this place all you're doing is being brutally punished.

Any nation which, through negligence or some fault in its security, allows a gun made there to enter the United States has given causus belli. As such, the US Armed Forces will respond by completely destroying every munitions factory or gun works in that nation. We'll hold back if the nation does it itself.

There would be a three month amnesty in which people owning guns regardless of their legal status could turn them in to the police to be destroyed. After that ATF will go and pry the guns out of Charlton Heston's cold dead hands, and they will do so happily. (As a side note I'd like to point out that when they killed President Kennedy Heston, an ardent Democrat and proponent of Civil Rights, went on TV with Jimmy Stewart and some other people to call for stricter gun control.)

If we do that, we can virtually guarantee that there won't be enough guns out there to for students to get their hands on. Until then, we're going to be counting the bodies of our children from Littleton to Blacksburg.