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Discounting all of that, in deciding whether concealed carry could stop school shootings, it's absurd to demand an example involving a "campus homicide": Most campuses ban guns. The relevant question isn't whether concealed carry already works on campuses, where it isn't allowed, but whether it works elsewhere and thus might be expanded to campuses to prevent tragedies like this one.

The panel could reasonably have come down on either side of the concealed carry debate, but not without looking at the relevant research. Panel members could have started with the Centers for Disease Control and National Academies of Science reports.

The victims' families deserved an honest report, one that presented both sides of the gun control debate and tried to make some sense of the evidence. Instead, they got a random smattering of anti-gun rhetoric.

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