Guns are seized in U.S. schools each day. The numbers are soaring.
10/12/23
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from The Washington Post,
10/10/23:
“School a war zone …” the teen wrote on Instagram.
In the United States, where gun violence has soared since the pandemic began, Jaden’s experience is one shared by students of every age in every state throughout the school year — a bleak reflection of a society awash in firearms.
Last school year, news reports identified more than 1,150 guns brought to K-12 campuses but seized before anyone fired them, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. That’s more than six guns each day, on average. Nationwide, 1 in 47 school-age children — 1.1 million students — attended a school where at least one gun was found and reported on by the media in the 2022-2023 school year.
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