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Sorry but actually I think you will find the opposite is true. Guns are smuggled from the US to Mexico. Here in Houston, TX which is 350 miles from the Mexican Border, there have been several big stories on this. One of the key sources of guns in some of those stories is a store about 2 miles from me. A quick google search for "us mexico gun smuggling" returns top results like
estimates are more than 200,000 firearms every year trafficked from the U.S. to Mexico
Between 70 to 90 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico can be traced back to the U.S
I suspect this is probably one of the extreme examples
In Rock Hill, S.C., authorities recently recovered guns at three schools on three consecutive days, including at a middle school where police say a 14-year-old boy pulled a handgun on a fellow student. According to police, the 14-year-old student was involved in a fist fight in a school bathroom when a gun fell out of his pants. The youth picked up the gun and pointed it at a student, sending his classmates fleeing, police said.
and
Far more guns have turned up in U.S. schools during the first two months of this school year compared with recent years, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, which tracks news accounts and police reports. The archive documented more than 220 gun seizures in August and September across 35 states, up from 128 in the same period last year and 132 in 2019. Many schools were remote in fall 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
and while less dangerous, this is a concerning trend.
As real incidents have gone up, so have fake ones. Schools nationwide are contending with a rash of so-called swatting, or hoax 911 calls about bogus active shooters, said the National Association of School Resource Officers. Since Sept. 9, the nonprofit group said, it has tracked reports of swatting incidents in at least 17 states and the District of Columbia.
A teacher was shot by a 6-year-old boy in an altercation at an elementary school in Newport News, Va., Friday, according to police.
“The student is in custody,” the Newport News Police Department said in a statement.
The victim, identified as a female teacher at Richneck Elementary School, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to police and the school district.
No other injuries were reported at the school, which is around 25 miles north of Norfolk.
“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Police Chief Steve Drew said at a press briefing Friday.
The shooting occurred in a classroom with only one gunshot fired, Chief Drew said. He described the incident, which took place around 2 p.m., as an altercation between a student and teacher.
As long as there is such easy access to guns either for 6 year old or a 50 year old and as long as mass shootings are amplified in the media, we will continue to have this tragedy of gun violence. I lost someone very close to me with a man coming to the door with a firearm in the middle of the day asking for work. It gives one person too much immediate and total power over another human being.
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The Texas Legislature took decisive action to prevent school mass shootings and passed a law that requires every school in the state to have a police officer on site. Of course when it comes to the Uvalde TX 2022 School Shooting where 21 were killed, there already was an armed Police Officer on site. Additionally within minutes of the start of the shooting Police entered the school only to retreat minutes later. An hour an 10 mins later, with almost 400 law enforcement officers on site, the Police finally engage the shooter and kill him. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/27/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-timeline/
So the details of my local school district (SBISD) are as follows
47 Schools
44 Square Miles
40,000 Students
4,000 Employees
55 Police Officers & 14 non-officer support staff
For the non-American's here, yes every school has an armed Police Officer permanently assigned to it. Not just there for traffic in the morning and evening!