Letter to the Editor Rierson 8/26/2022 | Opinion | carrollspaper.com – Carroll Daily Times Herald

What if I told you that there was a way to reduce the chance of a school shooting by 75%?

After reading the article in this paper a few weeks ago titled Community Leaders Weigh In on Gun Violence, I noticed a key fact was missing. Did you know that three-fourths of school shooters got their gun from the home of a parent or close relative (National Threat Assessment Center, Protecting Americas Schools, 2019)?

When my husband and I started a family, we made sure our guns were all in a safe with a combination code that only we know. We also asked my family to lock up their guns.

I have struggled to ask our childrens friends families if their guns are locked up, but have recently reconsidered my hesitancy. I believe my discomfort with this question stems from the fact that we consider guns a sensitive subject, but when you think about it, we can be pro Second Amendment and pro-gun safety! I have resolved to do better and make this a more common conversation.

We all invest incredible amounts of money to keep our children safe, both at school and at home, but are we locking up guns for safety? Are your neighbors and extended family locking them up?

As a community, this is a conversation we should be having with each other. However you interpret the Second Amendment (and this letter is in no way refuting the Second Amendment), we can all be pro-gun safety by taking simple but effective steps to keep guns out of the hands of our schoolchildren.

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Letter to the Editor Rierson 8/26/2022 | Opinion | carrollspaper.com - Carroll Daily Times Herald