Gun violence in schools is a problem. I mean, we all want our children to be safe, especially, when they’re at school. That’s supposed to be a place of learning, but, still, we see children taking guns to school. Why?
Gun violence researchers and sociologists point to issues like gang violence and peer pressure, and it’s likely that those may play a part in the situation, but even those can be boiled down to a much simpler root motivation.
Tom Knighton gives us that alternative viewpoint:
If you carry your firearm on a regular basis, you probably do it so you can protect yourself if the need arises. As such, you certainly understand why someone else would opt to carry a firearm for self-defense, right?
I sure do.
But what happens when the person who is carrying it is someone who’s not actually permitted to do so? I don’t mean “not permitted” as in they don’t have a carry permit, either. I mean, it’s not legal for them to do so?
Well, even if you don’t approve, you may still understand it.
Now, what if it was kids carrying guns to school for that reason?
That’s right, the primary reason that children carry firearms to school is simply because they don’t feel safe. Tori Gessner writes,
Jefferson County [Kentucky] Public Schools has discovered at least ten guns on campus so far this year, and some behavioral therapists and police believe students are bringing the weapons to class for their own protection.
Again, from Knighton:
What I am saying is that if you want to reduce the potential of a kid bringing a gun to school, you might want to focus on making them safer both on campus and off so they won’t feel the need to do so. Most of them aren’t that worried about what will happen to them on school grounds–they know the worst they’ll get is beaten up, and while that sucks, it’s not life-threatening. What they’re probably worried about is what happens after they step off-campus.
So you need to make it safer in both places by stepping up and doing what’s right, not what activists claim is right. That means making arrests, stepping up police presence, and when people get arrested, making it so they’re not right back on the streets ready to break the law yet again.
Do that and you’ll start to see a drop in guns in schools.
Maybe Knighton is right. Maybe the solution to gun violence among kids is to crack down on the violence that they have to deal with off campus from gangs and other criminals.
What do you think: Is cracking down on gangs and criminals off campus the way to reducing gun violence among kids? Tell us below.
Sure could not hurt to keep our kids safer, make them FEEL and actually BE safer. . Ya Think!!
The first time I saw a gun in school, I was in the second grade. One of my classmates, also a second-grader, had a small pistol in his lunch bag. He said that when he walked home from the bus stop, he encountered a man who kept harassing and threatening him. He said no one believed him and his parents wouldn’t call the police. A few weeks later, he disappeared and was never heard from again.
This was back in the early 1960s. It’s not a new phenomenon.
Parents need to stop and actually listen to their kids. Sure, some kids will make up stories but what if your child is telling the truth.
The problem is, the gangbangers with guns! Most law abiding citizens who own fun (with Permits) don’t use their weapon unless it’s in self defense!!
Time to educate the ignorant!
It is true that there are those that are ignorant Sturgis, but it is also true that there are those that want to disarm all of us, legal, and permitted carriers of legal firearms. There is no solution to those that are illegal users of firearms other than to arrest, prosecute, and imprison those that misuse them, but there are also those like the District Attorneys that don’t believe in the active prosecution of those folks, even after multiple felonies and incarcerations, they let them back out to roam and victimize others at will. So long as we allow that through the elections of those folks, there will not be any solutions that actually work. If folks that misuse firearms, (among other lethal things), are not separated from ordinary folks that are peaceful and reasonable with respect to each other and observant of reasonable law and regulation there will be no change.
As this article says, the solution is crime control.
On another note on the article, I wish pro-gun people would quit allowing the anti-gun crowd set the terminology. The issue isn’t “gun violence”. the true problem is VIOLENCE with a gun. Violence is the problem, not the gun.
The author has fallen into the trap the communist left set by making it sound like the issue is guns.
Please stop printing articles that use the incorrect and inflammatory terminology of the left.
The best thing to do is get your kids OUT of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM,,,
Home school, private school, charter school,
That’s the way,
& money shouldn’t be the problem, there are programs to help with admissions.
Public schools are another arm of the Democrats.
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