At an event touting the Biden administration's efforts to curb gun violence, Vice President Kamala Harris said the vast
The statistic Vice President Kamala Harris cites derives from a limited U.S. Secret Service study published in 2019. The report didn’t find that 75% of guns used in school shootings came from unsecured locations.
"Put it in a lockbox, because especially if a young person is just curious, or, you know, wants to play with a gun … let's not make it too easy to get," Harris said."And that's what secure storage is about. You know, the numbers that I have seen suggest that as many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.
"It makes sense that most of the guns used in school shootings come from the shooter's home. It's the easiest place for a juvenile to find a gun," said Jay Corzine, an emeritus sociology professor and a gun policy specialist at the University of Central Florida."But, is it 75%? Is it 68%? I don't know."Of the 25 shootings studied, perpetrators acquired firearms from the home of a parent or close relative in 19 cases.
Garen Wintemute, director of the University of California, Davis’ Violence Prevention Research Program, said"secured" means that firearms are locked up and unloaded."‘Locked up’ doesn’t have to mean locked inside something; there can be a lock placed on the firearm," he said, with the ammunition stored in a separate location.There is little data showing how often unsecured guns obtained from homes are being used in school shootings.
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