Following the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech, the gun lobby's unbelievable response has been to put more guns on campus. They actually want to arm students and teachers, an act that they think will prevent more shootings.

The Brady Center has compiled a new report, No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby's Campaign to Push Guns Into Colleges and Schools, which blows the whistle on the gun lobby's strategy and explains how, far from saving lives, it would dramatically increase gun violence risks to college students and trample on academic freedom. Adding guns into that volatile mix can make things worse.

The report draws attention to the gun lobby's efforts in recent years, and since Virginia Tech, to change college campus rules prohibiting firearms and describes gun lobby efforts in Michigan, Utah, South Carolina, and other states to force colleges to allow the possession and use of firearms by students and others on campus.

The gun lobby is pushing legislation that would allow 18-year-old kids to carry handguns to class, and kids even younger than 18 could possess AK-47 assault rifles with high-capacity magazines on campus. The gun lobby also wants to arm K-12 teachers.

The gun lobby's argument is based on the premise that a teacher or student could stop an attacker with their gun. Even trained police officers, on average, hit their intended targets less than 20% of the time. Arming teachers would more likely make them a target in an attack, and could encourage attackers to increase their firepower or wear body armor.

Despite the massacre at Virginia Tech, college campuses are safer than the communities that surround them, precisely because those institutions have barred or tightly controlled guns.

Read more about this dangerous plan of the gun lobby's at our special webpage www.bradycampaign.org/action/schools.