Eugene Volokh
American legal scholar; Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA School of Law. Founded The Volokh Conspiracy blog in 2002, hosted at Reason since 2017, where he writes on free speech, guns and the courts.
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Their wordsIf anything, there are weighty interests in full disclosure because knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness or unreasonableness of a school policy that has become a topic of public debate across the nation.
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Their wordsAnd while in some situations the balancing test in the necessity defense can be vaguer than the somewhat more precise terms of the self-defense defense, carrying a gun into a no-guns zone in order to stop an apparent in-progress school shooting makes for an extraordinarily clear case for the defense.
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Their wordsBut even if you think the Oregon law (coupled with Bend's policy) is foolish in generally criminalizing gun licensees' carrying a gun onto school property, it's not so foolish as to criminalizing their carrying a gun onto school property when necessary to stop an in-progress school shooting.
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Their wordsStill, thanks to a Crime Prevention Research Center spreadsheet, I can say that in 2025 there appeared to have been at least a dozen such incidents.
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Their wordsI expect that conservative counts for those years would likewise be comparable to my count for 2025.
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Their wordsBut it is a reminder that multiple shootings are indeed sometimes (and not that rarely) stopped by good guys with guns.
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Their wordsI often hear people argue (often quite militantly) that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that's a false dichotomy.
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Their wordsThe United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it's only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.