Look at the attitudes of kids today. Our fathers had guns when we were kids but we never brought them to school.

We had knives - we never brought them to school

We had baseball bats - Nobody ever clubbed anyone.

If you hit anyone you were disciplined

This whole idea of kids and gang members shooting each other
has evolved over the years. Until you change the attitudes you'll
have problems. If you get rid of the guns, they'll use knives. Get rid
of knives they'll use clubs.

It is illegal to kill people - yet they do.

Change the attitude - stop the acceptability of killing as an easy way to resolve an issue.

What are these kids going to do when they get elected to congress?
As they grow older their attitudes will change.
We need to find a way to motivate the change in attitude - now not later

A friend's son got in a fight because someone stole a ten dollar bill and they went at each other
with a pipe and a 2 X 4. I asked why he associated with these people who stole money and he called them friends. He said, You don't understand, that's the way things are these days.
He was right - I didn't understand - and I still don't.

I brought a cased 12-gauge shotgun to school to be used in speech class, a demonstration speech on how to clean a shotgun. My older brother did the same thing a year earlier. When I was in high school we would sometimes go duck hunting before school and race to get to school on time with the shotgun, ammo, and hunting boots, jackets, waders, etc. in the trunk of the car. I realize this is a far cry from what is happening now, but the guns were basically the same 30 years ago as they are now. Society and kids have changed.

... that kids have changed.

I would submit that ADULTS have changed. Adults, by no longer instilling in children a sense of personal responsibility or the concept that actions have consequences have created and environment where kids don't know what is expect of them.

Kids today aren't bad or even worse than those of the past -- they only seem that way because they respond to a lack of guidance from adults.

When I said 'society and kids have changed' my point was that people have changed and guns have always been available. I slightly disagree with your seemingly to let the kids off the hook almost entirely.

It doesn't matter what the reason - the kids have changed

Whether it's the parents of the video games or peer pressure

The question is how do we reverse the child's attitude

I hear you say that better parenting would be a possibility
Sounds like a place to start.

How do we retrain the parents - an ad campaign - like -don't little?
Instead - Your kids listen to what you say

It's a start - What about messages from teachers ?

firearms are innocent victims...

NT

Every high school graduate should know how to safely unload the most common types of firearms.

Do you think making it double-illegal would do anything? Maybe doubleplus-illegal.

It's parenting and poverty.

I'm sure that those kids who bring guns to school probably don't have pools at home.

It'd be interesting to know if the guns going to school were "legally" owned by the parents?

to have kids ought to pay every scrap of the costs associated with sub-adults in our society? Heck, I'll pitch in my bit of the cost of the metal detector if she covers my share of just the school...