I think the conventional wisdom is that they would. Arming high school
students would be like giving a hand grenade to a six year old. The
result would be tragedy at a scale that would make Littleton look like
Sesame Street.
And I think the conventional wisdom is correct in this case. If I had
the option of sending my kids to a school which had newly opened and was
going to operate under this philosophy, I would not do so. I would not
knowingly put my kids into a situation where they were surrounded on all
sides by guns, and any hot-tempered argument could instantly flare into
deadly gunfire.
Does anyone here think differently? Does anyone believe so strongly in
the civilizing nature of firearms that they think supplying them to high
school kids as in this scenario would actually decrease violence?