Officials across the U.S. responded to various reports of guns on school property the day after a gunman killed 17 people at a south Florida high school. Reports emerged Thursday that a student from West Palm Beach, about two hours north of Wednesday’s massacre in Parkland, had allegedly brought two guns to the local high school. That same day, students at three North Texas high schools were arrested for taking guns onto their campuses. And a middle school student in Alabama was taken into custody after a peer spotted a pistol in his jacket pocket. Other schools in Florida and Texas, along with Maryland, Idaho and Arizona, also reported students concealing guns or BB guns on their person, in their backpacks or in their vehicles. No injuries were reported in any of these cases. Students are typically caught with guns at school at a rate of just over one per day in the United States, according to nonprofit gun news site The Trace. A day earlier, 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz is alleged to have stormed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, brandishing an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, and killing 17 people while injuring 14 others. He was charged… Read full this story
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