Multiple experts have pointed to mental illness and the limited resources to help people with their mental health issues. The virginia tech shooter who took the life of 33 people including himself, was “adjudicated as a mental defective” before purchasing the the guns he used in the massacre legally. (Siebel 320) This is just one explain of how gun control laws have failed to detect those who shouldn't be in possession of such a deadly weapon and how something so defeating could have been prevented if mental health was taken more …show more content…
The shootings began to make the students feel insecure in the safety that the school can provide if a situation would occur, therefore leading them to want to protect themselves like comic book vigilantes. The fact is if a situation occurs, civilian having guns also will complicate the situation further and will make if difficult for law enforcement. Such as during the university of texas shooting on August 1, 1966, where civilian shot at charles