MORE GUNS IN SCHOOL? COME ON!

Did we learn nothing from the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut? If we did, then why did a 7-year-old just get caught in a Queens, New York school with a loaded, yes, I said 'loaded', handgun and a flare gun in his backpack? I just don't get it! 

Police arrested the mother of 7-year-old Queens boy on Thursday, who showed up to school with a handgun, a flare gun and ammo in his bookbag, prompting a building-wide lockdown of the school. A safety agent at the school discovered the .22-caliber handgun and a flare pistol after the boy's mother, Deborah Farley, 53, notified the principal of Wave Preparatory Elementary School in Far Rockaway, NY two hours after dropping him off Thursday morning. The bag also contained an extra 10-round ammunition magazine and loose bullets. Early this morning, police announced that the mother was arrested and being charged in connection with the incident and will face counts of criminal possession of a deadly weapon, unlawful possession of a deadly weapon, and endangering the welfare of a child. She hasn't been arraigned at the time of this writing. 

Investigators searched Farley's home and found additional ammunition. She did admit that the .22-caliber was hers and that she stashed the gun in her son's bookbag on Wednesday and then totally forgot about it. The mother's story seemed somewhat different the next day when it hit the public. According to police sources, the mother dropped her second-grader off at school, only to return home to be told by a family member that the boy had taken a gun, ammo, and flare gun to school. The mom, supposedly, rushed back to campus and pulled her son out of class, saying that he had a dental appointment. He son allegedly told her that he'd given the gun to a classmate, which turned out to be untrue. The mother then confessed to the principal, who ordered the lockdown that sent terrified students into a frenzy looking for safety in fear that a gunman was stalking the halls. 

The guns were eventually tracked down and all were safe. BUT, and this is a big 'but', why did this kid have a gun in his backpack in the first place? If I had to stash a gun somewhere safe, the very last place that I would place it would be in the backpack of my 7-year-old child. What is wrong with people? Are you not paying attention to the news? Do you not see that we are trying to control guns in this country? Put your guns someplace safe! It's people like Miss Farley, who don't deserve to be a gun owner because she doesn't use her brain and is careless. Who needs a brainless and careless gun owner running around these parts of the country? Oh, yeah! They already are!