“I was going to go down swinging” sounds like a remark that a dejected Little League player would make after an unsuccessful effort to hit a baseball in a big spot on a sunny spring day. It is not. This comment was made on national television by a brave 12-year-old boy who was locked in his classroom after shots were fired in his school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He was clutching an aluminum baseball bat for protection.

The scourge of school violence deeply troubles all Americans. With each passing year more and more of these disastrous incidents occur. They have become some type of perverted commonplace event in our country. We have grown uncomfortably accustomed to students fleeing their schools and colleges with their hands in the air followed by a casualty report. In recent events we have begun to hear stories of courageous, unarmed students and teachers grappling with their assailants often with deadly results. The latest being 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, who heroically lost his life protecting his fellow students at the STEM School in Highlands Ranch. Can the law be used in some manner to attempt to stem this plague of death? It can.

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