The thing is gun laws won't protect against school shootings unless you basically completely disarm the population--which is not realistically possible as there

The thing is gun laws won't protect against school shootings unless you basically completely disarm the population--which is not realistically possible as there would be too much non-compliance. And note two things about the data: 1) Many sources seek to inflate the number of school shootings by counting incidents in which the school is only incidental, not the target. Think drug deal in the parking lot when school is out etc. And note that counting firearm deaths to minors counts mostly gang vs gang stuff. 2) It is almost certain that guns save more people in self defense situations than they take in all mass shootings (using the realistic test of public and indiscriminate targets--again, the numbers are inflated by things like gang fights), let alone just school shootings. (And, no, I do not believe Lott's numbers. He's way high and an awful lot of what he does count is deterred robbers and the like, where death was unlikely in the first place.)