Dave Kopel and Ari Armstrong

About the author: Dave Kopel is the author of numerous books and articles on gun control. He is also the research director for the Independence Institute, an associate policy analyst with the Cato Institute, and the director of the Center on the Digital Economy at the Heartland Institute. Ari Armstrong is the publisher of the Colorado Freedom Report.

The media blame access to guns for school shootings instead of examining the role that parents and gun control have played in these crimes. The parents of these shooters often pay little attention to their children's lives, and their lack of responsibility should be acknowledged. For example, the parents of Charles Andrew Williams, the alleged perpetrator of the shootings at Santana High School in Santee, California, in March 2001, were...