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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what are you personally doing to protect children from gun violence? What do you think your school should do to be more proactive?

They discovered the incident. They addr she’s it. Is your concern that there was not a school assembly to discuss gun safety?

My child’s DCPS has had two lockdown drills this year. Does CMI do those? [/quote]

Thank you for your empathetic response.

I am not sure if CMI has had lockdown drills. I haven’t received info about it. They have indeed had fire drills.

I am attempting to start a discussion about gun safety. I agree the child innocently made a mistake bringing a bullet to school and it was handled by admin. To me, this is a wake up call — regardless of innocence, that we need to talk about guns in the home. I am researching advocacy groups. It’s never too early to empower the school and family-body with information to be proactive for the safety at home and school. [/quote]

What you need to be doing, as a person who lives in the city, is teaching your child how to handle city hazards. I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. Kids knew how to handle guns and hunting knives. They recognized that those tools were primarily intended for that activity. We learned about car safety and gun safety and farm animal safety. I am raising my child in the city. She knows not to pick up weird stuff she finds on the ground at the playground - the one near our house sometimes has drug paraphernalia (e.g, needles, baggies, bottles, etc.) on the ground - and she knows if she sees a gun or a bullet or a knife or something to stay away from it and come tell me immediately. She knows how to cross streets in the city which is something I didn't learn until I was a teenager because we drove everywhere and basically only ever walked from the car.

I think that what you are having a hard time with is the actual risk to your child posed by guns and bullets. Overwhelmingly, the risk of gun violence is guns in the home. Do you have guns in your home? If not, your kid is already a lot less at risk. Do you ask about guns in the home at playdates with unfamiliar families? If not, maybe consider doing that. You need to figure out a way to do it in a way that is not rude, but as a parent who is familiar with guns who has a child who did not receive that training because we don't have guns in the house, my biggest gun-related fear for my kids isn't from a kid bringing a bullet to school. It's if she goes on a play date and I'm not there and her friend wants to show her his dad's gun or whatever.

I think that your posts are getting scoffed at because you come off as a person who apparently just realized the threat posed to children by firearms this week because a child brought a bullet to school. Your attempt to "start a conversation about gun safety" comes off as naive. The conversations have been going on for years, more loudly since Sandy Hook of course.[/quote]

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