At least 21 shootings have taken place in Pennsylvania schools since 2015.1 Kids, parents, and teachers all live in fear that the next shooting will happen in their school, and everyone is asking themselves: “How can we stay safe?”
Some have suggested adding armed guards in K-12 schools–despite years of research showing that this doesn’t reduce fatalities.2 Making schools feel like prisons isn’t the way to keep kids safe. Preventing access to guns is.
Did you know that over 3/4 of school shooters access their firearms from the home of a parent or close relative?3
If the adults in these troubled young people’s lives had simply been responsible and securely locked up their weapons, untold suffering and trauma could have been avoided. And there is a bill in Harrisburg that would require just that.
House Bill 1629 would require the safe storage of firearms in homes where children may be present.4 We need your help to get it passed. Click the button below to contact your State Representatives and ask them to cosponsor this bill.
