What can be done to protect children from school shootings immediately?

@joe438 How does that conflate with banning guns? Are you trying to say the UK has seen a massive uptick in mass stabbing and bombings since 1996? If so, allow me to reassure you: No, it hasn’t.

Banning guns in the UK has reduced gun crime to near zero.

@SW-User You're suggesting that banning guns will stop mass killings but it won't. It just makes mass murderers think of something else. I won't waste the space here pasting in a Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain) but there have been quite a few bombings since 1996. Reducing gun crime is great, but you kind of want to reduce all kinds of crime.

How can we go about reducing all kinds of murders around the world? No one wants to live in fear of being killed.

@SW-User Just your random stabbings.

@Adrift Random stabbings happen everywhere. But here's the thing: They don't happen in schools in the UK.

@joe438
Yet mass murders with guns happen almost every week in America. Mass murder incidents anywhere else in the world, including the UK, are vanishingly rare. The mass murderers clearly have a weapon of choice...

The fact remains, the UK banned guns almost immediately after the Dunblane massacre in 1996, and there has not be a single mass shooting since.

If that isn't evidence for banning guns to keep our children safe, I don't know what is.

@SW-User Funny I just google Uk school stabbings and found a few incidents.

@Adrift Funny, we weren't talking about that. We were talking about school shootings, and banning guns. There haven't been any school shootings in the UK since 1996.

@SW-User We are not the UK.

@Adrift How is that still not better than mass shootings? With a knife you can't even kill many people at once. With a gun you can kill a lot of people really fast, and it's harder for teachers and police to get the situation under control. Not many people do "mass" stabbings, compared to people who do mass shootings. Most children don't have the guts to stab someone. If you think as many people die from stabbings or other kinds of violence, around the world, as people who die from mass shootings in the US, you are totally wrong. I assume other crimes go up a little when people don't have access to guns, but BY NO MEANS can it be compared to the amounts of deaths caused by guns in the US, like we are not even talking REMOTELY, so how is banning guns not going to improve the situation A LOT?