Here's what Google brought home:
http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/violence-in-schools/virginia-statistics.html"There are far more look-alike guns (toys) than real guns. Moreover, event the category of “real” guns may be misleading. Of the 143 incidents involving an object that was formally classified as a “real gun”, just 22 were handguns and 8 were rifle/shotguns. There were 113 incidents classified either as “other firearms,” a category (WP8) that includes air rifles, or as “BB Guns,” which is its own category (WP0). "
Note that the total amount of children carrying firearms in Virginia schools is
30. Thirty. As in, three dozens. Out of 1,235,309 students of varying age.
This is the Virginia school system's own statistic.
http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/violence-in-schools/national-statistics.htmlAccording to the National School Safety Center, the total amount of homicides in American schools during the school day -
in all of the United States of America had been 1. As in 1. As in
one.
Every single year, news continue to tell us of rising violent crime rate, violent youth, The Children Rising To Devour Us. THey do this despite the
consistently dropping rate of violence among youth.
Conclusion:
Either the oppressive majority of these hundreds of thousands of young men and women carrying pistols to school manage to hide it so awesomely well that nobody notices them - and then to continue to
commit no violent crimes with them - suggesting that them carrying these arms is not actually a problem - or, more likely, they do not actually exist, and their numbers are highly exaggerated by principals, teachers, and other attention-seekers for funds, political power, and media exposure.