Question - suppose children were allowed to bring toy guns to school without any consequences . Then a child brings a real gun to school, and some one gets shot. What would be the reaction when it came out that toys guns were allowed in that school. I'm just askin ? Think before giving knee jerk replies.
Precisely.
Again, If the kid brings a toy truck or match box cars to school do you think, a kid will drive up in a real car? After all kids have more access to a car than to a gun. Parents tend to lock up firearms but leave the car keys out on the counter.
I think you really need to look at who is doing a knee jerk reaction. After all Cars kill more people than guns by a large margin.
The President in his lies of the union address sad there were over 1,000 gun violence deaths since the Sandy Hook moron shot up a school. Three things need to be remembered in that statistic. All Shootings are counted as gun violence. So all suicides, all police shootings, all gang homocides, and any self defence shootings are counted. As far as that stats go all we hear is 1,000 people, and it could be 200 susicides, 6 hundred gang related, 100 police shootings, and 100 self defence shootings.
It is all about emotion andd not about reason or facts.
After all did a 10 year old really need to be arrested?