The shooting at Santana High School in Santee, Calif., last Monday brought the issue of school security and student safety to the forefront of the media again. The police arrested Williams in the bathroom, where they found him kneeling over a fully loaded, .22-caliber revolver, with the hammer cocked. Police say he would have continued his alleged killing spree if they had not arrived when they did. Kids know killing is wrong.
Kids know the inherent dangers of guns.
But, it is almost as if they don't process the consequences of their actions. It showed a series of clips of kids, ages 5 to 17, being exposed to guns. Hidden cameras documented the reactions of the subjects when they found real, unloaded handguns. The kindergarten-aged children, all of whom watched a video showing the dangers of guns two days earlier, picked up the guns, aimed them at other children and fired. Then, the children giggled.