Texas: 4-year-old walks to school with a loaded gun

UA 4-year-old walked to school with a loaded gun, Texas authorities said Wednesday, days after a similar incident in Arizona, as the start of the school year rekindles fears of school shootings . On Wednesday morning, an off-duty officer reported a ‘4-year-old student was in possession of a loaded handgun’ on the grounds of a Corpus Christi elementary school, police said. of this South Texas town. Investigators went to the child’s home and identified the owners of the weapon, his parents, added the police in a press release.

The 30-year-old father was arrested and charged with making a firearm accessible to a child and abandoning or endangering a minor, according to Corpus Christi police. Massacres regularly mourn American schools. In May, America was marked by the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and 2 teachers died. On Monday, a 7-year-old student showed up at school with a gun in his backpack and some ammunition, according to the Cochise, Arizona, sheriff’s office.

After the child’s father reported another of his pistols missing, a second weapon was discovered hidden in the school’s administrative premises. “Questioned, the parents said that the weapons had been placed in what they believed to be a safe place, away from the children (…), but it seems that the young student was able to access it and bring the weapons to school. the Cochise Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday. The child will be the subject of proceedings before the juvenile justice system, he added.

Nearly 400 million guns are in circulation in the United States – more than the number of people.