The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest national survey ever of adolescents, found that a quarter of U.S. teens have been involved with weapons. Guns in the family While a gun in a home is by no means an open invitation to bring it to school, the possibility remains that it could fall into the hands of a student and be brought to Blair. Seventeen percent of surveyed students reported that there is a gun in their home. One senior has approximately five guns in his home but his father, a gun collector, owns around thirty total. Another senior owns three guns that he stores at his father's house.
Handguns appear to be widely accessible to youth.
The danger of gun accessibility is exacerbated by the fact that most gun-owning families store guns loaded, according to a recent study by the Archive of Pediatrics and Adolescent medicine. Past school shootings could not have occurred had firearms not been available to the gunmen. Consequently, the possibility that a student will bring a readily available firearm to Blair makes some students feel vulnerable. Contact the police department to report a gun at a school. It seems so unbelievable that kids are being killed at school.