Guns in School--What Could Go Wrong?

Only a million things.  Here is the thing about guns.  Most people are not very good with them.  That is a fact.  You are 22 times more likely to be shot accidentally if you have a gun than if you do not.  Your risk of death by suicide is 10 times greater if you have access to a gun.  Guns are far more likely to be used unintentionally than intentionally.  And here is the thing that is worst of all, as the 10 state in the U.S. has passed laws allowing for guns to be legally carried on school campuses.  In states where gun ownership is highest there is 9 times the rate of unintentional firearm deaths than in the states where gun ownership is lowest.

True, people practice gun safety and have guns locked up and safe and out of the hands of children.  But these accidents continue to happen, and the body count continues to rise.  And now guns in schools is a stark reality.

So far there are no added precautions or qualifications for carrying a gun to school.  You would think that the people who know most about guns would be enraged by this, but they don't seem to be.  The first time a teacher shoots a child, well, I would like to think that would be the end of that, but I am undoubtedly deluding myself because nothing seems to stop this madness.  This week we had the second accidental shooting of a teacher who was carrying a gun on a school campus--both of them shot themselves, thankfully, but that won't be the end of it, you can be sure.  Praying for sanity in this insane climate, and hoping Kevlar vests are not the new school uniform.