The time is overdue for a reassessment of such laws. All they have done is create target-rich, no-risk environments for monsters who have no fear of encountering an armed teacher or administrator, or a legally-armed private citizen who might happen to be in the building.

This sort of thing didn't happen before the advent of gun-free school zone laws. You never saw such an outrage in the days when high schools typically had rifle teams, and particularly in the West where it was common in the fall to find both teachers and students with hunting rifles or shotguns locked in their cars.

Gun control extremists will use this incident to claim that we have not done enough to protect our children. The truth is, anti-gunners have done enough already by pushing through restrictive gun laws like the gun-free school zones statutes that have disarmed the wrong people and left our schools and the children inside vulnerable to this kind of atrocity.

No gun law ever prevented a crime, and the notion of a gun-free zone is a myth. More restrictions on law-abiding citizens will never stop criminals who proved yet again that feel-good laws have defrauded American citizens and especially our children of genuine safety.

Concealed-carry weapon criminals have two options: Change your ways, or wish you had.