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Training teachers to carry guns. In places where proposals to arm teachers were made or implemented, public debate ensued. Opponents of arming teachers argue that it is not the teachers' job to provide security, [1] but rather the task of the government, as the teachers' employer, to provide a safe work environment. [2]
In 2004, New York Times "Personal Health" columnist Jane Brody wrote that the NRA underwrote the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program "in part hoping to avert more stringent gun control laws." [ 16 ] As of 1997, the NRA says it reached 10 million children, [ 10 ] and by 2015 it said that the number had grown to 28 million. [ 11 ]
Research suggest that certain gun control policies have an impact on rates of gun violence in schools. For example, Anderson and Sabia find that Child-Access-Prevention (CAP) laws decrease the rate of students bringing weapons to school (by about 18.5%) and the rate of students being threatened with weapons at school (by 19%). [26]
4 5-graders at Caring and Sharing Learning School in G'ville recognized as winners of essay contest focused on combatting gun violence in community.
Hallyburton placed the gun safety conversation in the context of Idaho’s youth suicide rate, among the highest in the country. Many of those completed suicides, he said, used a gun. Many of ...
Experts explain why parents have a responsibility to talk to their children about firearms.
Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. [1] [2] Most countries allow civilians to own firearms, but have strong firearms laws to prevent violence.
The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the U.S. jumped 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...