This is our highest enrollment in U.S. history. These children are our greatest personal and national responsibility. If they are not secure, our own posterity and national destiny are at risk.
Children continue to be among the most significant and tragic victims of violence.
If one then adds the weapons available through straw buyers, and other uncontrolled sources, one can readily understand why our children are growing up in a potentially very dangerous environment. Many who wish to perpetuate an uncontrolled market in weapons have instead demonized our children as the perpetrators of violence, resulting in excessive expulsions from the very schools that are the last best hope for socializing many of our children. Adults have the responsibility and should have the accountability to provide a safe environment in which children can grow and thrive without fear. A recent study poignantly revealed that the overwhelming majority of high school students want stricter gun control. These students support not only licensing of handgun owners, trigger locks, but the registration of purchased weapons as well.