Below is a list of all mass shootings in the United States which occurred after the Columbine High School Massacre. Dates and death tolls (excluding the shooter) are included. School shootings have been listed  in bold. 

1. Columbine High School Shooting, Littleton, Colorado – April 1999: 13 Dead
2. Atlanta Shootings, Atlanta, Georgia – July 1999: 12 Dead
3. Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting, Fort Worth, Texas – September 1999: 7 Dead
4. Xerox Killings, Honolulu, Hawaii – November 1999: 7 Dead
5. Tampa Hotel Shootings, Tampa, Florida – December 1999: 5 Dead
6. Wakefield Massacre, Wakefield, Massachusetts – December 2000: 7 Dead
7. Lockheed Martin Shooting, Median, Mississippi – July 2003: 6 Dead
8. Living Church of God Shooting, Brookfield, Wisconsin – March 2005: 7 Dead
9. Red Lake High School, Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota – March 2005: 9 Dead
10. Goleta Postal Shootings, Goleta, California – January 2006: 7 Dead
11. Capitol Hill Massacre, Seattle Washington – March 2006: 6 Dead
12. West Nickel Mines Amish School, Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania – October 2006: 5 Dead
13. Tolley Square Shooting, Salt Lake City, Utah – February 2007: 5 Dead
14. Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia – April 2007: 32 Dead
15. Crandon Shooting, Crandon Wisconsin – October 2007: 6 Dead
16. Westroads Mall Shooting, Omaha Nebraska – December 2007: 8 Dead
17. Kirkwood City Council Shooting, Kirkwood, Missouri – February 2008: 6 Dead
18. Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois – February 2008: 5 Dead
19. Atlantis Plastics Shooting, Henderson Kentucky – June 2008: 5 Dead
20. Carthage Nursing Home Shooting – Carthage, North Carolina – March 2009: 8 Dead
21. Geneva County Massacre, Geneva and Samson, Alabama – March 2009: 10 Dead
22. Binghampton Shootings, Binghampton - April 2009: 13 Dead
23. Fort Hood Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas – November 2009: 13 Dead
24. Hartford Beer Distributor Shooting, Manchester, Connecticut – August 2010: 8 Dead
25. Tucson Shooting, Tucson, Arizona - January 2011: 6 Dead
26. Seal Beach Shooting, Seal Beach, California – October 2011: 8 Dead
27. Oikos University, Oakland, California – April 2012: 7 Dead
28. Seattle Café Shooting, Seattle, Washington – May 2012: 5 Dead
29. Aurora Shooting, Aurora, Colorado – July 2012: 12 Dead
30. Sikh Temple Shooting, Oak Creek, Wisconsin – August 2012: 6 Dead
31. Accent Signage Systems Shooting, Minneapolis, Minnesota – September 2012: 6 Dead
32. Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut – December 2012: 27 Dead
33. Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California – June 2013: 5 Dead
34. Hialeah Shooting, Hialeah, Florida – July 2013: 6 Dead
35. Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Washington D.C. – September 2013: 12 Dead
36. University of California Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, California – May 2014: 6 Dead
37. Marysville Pilchuck High School, Marysville, Washington – October 2014: 4 Dead
38. Charleston Church Shooting, Charleston, South Carolina – June 2015: 9 Dead
39. Chattanooga Military Recruitment Center, Chattanooga Tennessee – July 2015: 5 Dead
40. Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Oregon – October 2015: 9 Dead
41. San Bernardino Attack, San Bernardino, California – December 2015: 14 Dead
42. Kalamazoo Shooting Spree, Kalamazoo County, Michigan – February 2016: 6 Dead
43. Orlando Night-club Shooting, Orlando, Florida – June 2016: 49 Dead
44. Dallas Police Shooting, Dallas Texas – July 2016: 5 Dead
45. Cascade Mall Shooting, Burlington, Washington – September 2016: 5 Dead
46. Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida- January 2017: 5 Dead
47. Las Vegas Shooting, Las Vegas, Nevada – October 2017: 58 Dead
48. Sutherland Springs Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas – November 2017: 26 Dead
49. Rancho Tehama Shooting, Rancho Tehama, California – November 2017: 5 Dead
50. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida – February 2018: 17 Dead

139 total deaths at a School in the past 19 years. Senseless, preventable, occurring in most neighborhoods, although about 40% were targeted shootings for many different reasons like revenge of bullying, gang turf wars, fights.

In contrast:

Eleven (11) teens die every day as a result of texting while driving. That’s 4,015 teen deaths per year. Totally random, senseless, preventable, and these occur in all neighborhoods regardless of education or financial means.

Since and including Columbine, an average of 7.3 students are shot and killed per year on during school versus 4,015 per year because of texting.

A student is 550 times more likely to die because of texting than a school shooting.

Yet no one complains at this. This is where the deaths are and drunk driving deaths are statistically almost identical. Again, where is the outrage like that against guns?

Comparing being shot at school versus by texters or drunks in a car, it’s glaring that students are far safer in schools even with the shooters. Seven student shooting deaths per year is statistically nothing in a country with 325 million people. The odds of being shot at school?   .00000002246 to 1. Do the math.

So why the big push against guns? They’re scary looking? There’s a big push by many to take them away from people so that the population is unarmed and can be controlled easier? Is it that many liberal organizations simply hate them? Is it the logic that if you can somehow get rid of all guns then logically no one could get shot by them? That certainly is logically sound except for the fact that Mexico bans guns yet their shootings are double the U.S. 

Here’s the reason for the push against guns. It doesn’t affect the masses. 

The masses, including the marching students, don’t want their cell phones taken away. They don’t want the right to text taken away from them despite the fact that it is 550 times more deadly than any school shooter. It’s the same with drunk driving.  Everyone drives with one or more drinks in them at one point or another. They don’t want to end up in jail. To save their own possible life from harm, all these people disregard the infinitely more dangerous things that they do daily and instead focus on those who own a gun.

The bottom line? All these protesters don’t own a gun, won’t own a gun, and think they’ll never need one. So lets take them away from those that do and clear our conscience. 

Lets ignore the fact that our day to day routines are far more deadly. But that would be inconvenient. Then of course there is that pesky constitution and the second amendment. That one that says the people should be able to protect themselves from anyone and anything, including a rogue government. Say for example right now in Spain and in South Africa, which are both first world countries. In Spain they locked up and jailed elected Governors for advocating separating their region from Spain. A region with it's own language, norms, history, and everything else that fits a country. But the response from Spain is to jail these elected officials for life. By the way, the people of the region voted overwhelmingly to separate but Spain could care less what the people wanted. Oh, the unelected officials of the EU are going along with it. If Russia or China did this there'd be outrage. Bad guys exist everywhere, even in democracies.

Then there's South Africa today. A few weeks ago the legislature passed a decree that all land and property owned by all white land owners would be seized and given to the government. Read that again. All land owned by all whites, stolen by the government. Two days ago they passed a new law, all gun ownership was now illegal. So they'll try and take the farmer's guns so they can't fight back, and then they'll take their homes and land. Odds are high that the farmers will be murdered but it's not fact yet.

This is exactly what our forefathers like Washington and Jefferson feared from governments when they wrote that second amendment. "But it's 2019. That second amendment is so out of date". Actually it never goes out of date, bad power hungry people have existed since the dawn of civilization. The only thing that keeps them in check is their own self preservation and that comes from an armed population. 200 million guns keeps your attention no matter how large your army.

Guns aren't the problem. Lack of education and opportunity for the poor, cracking down on bullying kids at school, taking a zero tolerance attitude for students exhibiting crazy or  destructive tendencies, and arresting or getting help for all students who are clearly a problem instead of just passing them forward and saying nothing.

One last question to gun control advocates before you again bring up the fallback position of logic that if we can only rid the country of every single gun then no one will possibly get shot.

Please reconcile that with these irrefutable facts.

11,000,000 illegal aliens and 3,500 tons of drugs (into Arizona alone) are smuggled into the U.S. every year. Eleven million people take up an enormous amount of space. Probably 3 or 4 Empire State buildings at least. A ton of anything is 2000 pounds. That’s the weight of a car and marijuana certainly weighs less than metal like a car. Simply looking at Arizona drug smuggling alone, that’s the equivalent of somehow getting into the U.S. 3500 automobile size bundles of contraband.

A pistol is not much larger than 2 packs of cigarettes. A rifle, approximately the size of a small stand up lamp. Both infinitely smaller than a ton of pot or any size human.

Do you really think no guns will make it into the U.S. after all the others are taken away?

Or, like illegal aliens and the drug movers, will only criminals end up with illegal guns and regular citizens will be at their mercy?  

Keep South Africa in your mind. Down the road you may be living in a country just like it.