Over the past two years, more than 6,000 students have been caught with firearms in schools. There were only 13 prosecutions. It is a federal crime for a felon to even try to buy a gun. Yet, there have been no prosecutions for this offense in the past three years. In the past 2 years there have been only 11 prosecutions for illegally transferring handguns to juveniles.
Federal law prohibits juveniles from possessing handguns.
And running guns across state lines without a license is prohibited by federal law. Yet in the past 2 years there have been only 37 federal prosecutions nationwide for providing firearms to felons. Before we decide that the prescription is more gun laws - we need to answer these questions in order to properly diagnose the problem. And if at least part of the problem of youth violence has to do with guns, let's start with a policy of zero-tolerance for criminals. If we fail to prosecute felons with guns, it doesn't matter if you have five new gun laws or five million.