What happens after they get rid of all the guns/Preventing school violence

[TRB]

Here's what happens:

Australian School

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of teenagers armed with baseball bats and machetes attacked Australian teachers and students on Monday, injuring 18 people and forcing a high school in Sydney to be locked down, police said.

Five youths barged into the morning assembly at Merrylands High School in south-west Sydney, witnesses said, grabbing students before starting to smash windows at the school.

The school then locked its students in classrooms as the youths, who were not students, went through two school buildings, smashing more windows and equipment, police said.

"They caused a considerable amount of damage," a police spokesman told reporters. "There have been some assaults. But there are no serious injuries as a result of those assaults."

Attacks on schools are rare in Australia, where schoolyard security is usually low-key but south-western Sydney has a growing youth-gang problem.

Ambulance officers treated 18 people for minor injuries, including cuts from shattered glass, and shock, but one student and one teacher were taken to hospital with minor facial injuries and severe bruising.

Dozens of distressed parents rushed to the school, some in tears, police said.

Police arrested five boys, aged 14 to 16, after the attack.

(Reporting by James Grubel; Editing by David Fogarty)

[crlovel]

Ban the baseball bats and machetes! Think about the children!

[Brown-Bear]

I would chalk this up not to a gun ban but rather a ban whooping kids asses when they act up. Kids don't just wake up and decide to run a rampage thru the school at 14yrs old. That kind of behavior comes from pussified parents not puttiing their kids in their place when they were misbehaving as much younger children.

BB

[sjl127]

They'll join the Boy Scouts, just to get the pocket knife, and turn the entire organization militant.

[markheck1]

Unfortunately, they'll call this a success...because noone was killed

[crlovel]

Bear in mind that Australia is a former penal colony. Surely behavior such as this only stems from a hereditary criminal mindset, and these poor children are victims of the selfish decision to reproduce that their parents made. Simply put, Australia needs more Planned Parenthood clinics.

[Brown-Bear]

Bear in mind that Australia is a former penal colony. Surely behavior such as this only stems from a hereditary criminal mindset, and these poor children are victims of the selfish decision to reproduce that their parents made. Simply put, Australia needs more Planned Parenthood clinics.

Damn sam.

[crlovel]

Damn sam.

Please note the little winky smile.

[Brown-Bear]

Please note the little winky smile.

I saw it. I just thought what you said was funny. Thats all, no offense meant or taken.

Dave.