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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New suggestion for improving safety at school. Most of the cases I have read about shootings at school involve students obtaining a gun owned by their parents. Maybe unsecured, maybe in a safe, either way, that was the weapon(s) they used. My suggestion: if you have a teenage boy at home, do not also have a gun at home. Period. Bring it back after they move out.[/quote]

Suggestion - why don't genius parents like you offer to be security since you think this is an easy fix.[/quote]

I 100% don't think there is an easy fix. Obviously there is no one solution. But not having guns in the home would have prevented so many of these incidents. People like to say "oh they'd just have gotten them somewhere else" - no they wouldn't! These are kids, not criminal masterminds. Half the time they bring them to school is because they think they need them to feel safe, which is a lesson easily learned by observing dad's attitude about guns.

We can't get anywhere on gun control, fine, can we at least spread the message that if you want kids to be safer, you should remove guns from your own home? I found fourteen mass shooters since 2017 that got their gun via their parents, about half of which got them out of the gun safe. Having that driven home might make some people stop and think. If you are on this board saying anything like "we need cops in schools to protect our students from guns, what else can we possibly do" and you have a teenager and gun in your house, I'm telling you that removing it is a very tangible action you can and should take. Will this convince everyone, absolutely not, some of these kids have nightmare parents that seem to want them to commit a crime. But a lot of them don't - instead they have serious mental health problems, sometimes ones they are successfully hiding.

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