Editing School shooting (section)

=== Preventive measures ===
Because of the increase in guns in the United States, many schools and local communities are taking it into their own hands by providing young students with early gun safety courses to make them aware of the dangers these objects actually are, also to prevent school shootings. According to Katherine A. Fowler, PhD, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An average 1,297 children die (two children per 100,000) and 5,790 are treated for injuries caused by guns each year, the study reported. Six percent of these deaths were accidental, 38% were suicides, 53% were homicides and the remaining 3% were from legal intervention or undetermined reasons. Guns injured children at a rate of 8 per 100,000 children, but this rate is likely considerably higher because of unreported injuries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2017/06/19/american-denial-about-facts-on-guns-continues-to-kill-children/#38cd87354a9a|title=Children Are Dying Because Of Americans' Denial About Guns|last=Tara|first=Haelle|website=[[Forbes]]|date=June 19, 2017}}</ref>

A preventive measure proposed for stopping school shooting has been focused on securing firearms in the home. A shooting in [[Sparks, Nevada]] on October 21, 2013, left a teacher and the shooter, a twelve-year-old student, dead with two seriously injured. The handgun used in the shooting had been taken from the shooter's home. [[Sandy Hook Elementary School]] in Newtown, [[Red Lake High School]] in Red Lake, Minnesota in 2005, and [[Heath High School (Kentucky)|Heath High School]] in West Paducah, Kentucky in 1997 also involved legal guns taken from the home.

A 2000 study of firearm storage in the United States found that "from the homes with children and firearms, 55% reported to have one or more firearms in an unlocked place". 43% reported keeping guns without a trigger lock in an unlocked place. In 2005 a study was done on adult firearm storage practices in the United States found that over 1.69 million youth under age 18 are living in homes with loaded and unlocked firearms. Also, 73% of children under age 10 living in homes with guns reported knowing the location of their parents' firearms.<ref>"Preventing school shootings starts with gun safety at home". ''Christian Science Monitor''. October 31, 2013.</ref>

Most states have Child Access Prevention Laws—laws designed to prevent children from accessing firearms. Each state varies in the degree of the severity of these laws. The toughest laws enforce criminal liability when a minor achieves access to a carelessly stored firearm. The weakest forbid people from directly providing a firearm to a minor. There is also a wide range of laws that fall in between the two extremes. One example is a law that enforces criminal liability for carelessly stored firearms, but only where the minor uses the firearm and causes death or serious injury. An example of a weaker law is a law that enforces liability only in the event of reckless, knowing or deliberate behavior by the adult.<ref>{{cite web|author=Randich, Cheri|title=Description of State Child Access Prevention Laws.|publisher=Law & Justice|date=December 10, 2012|url=http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Committees/LAW/Documents/SummaryOfStateChildAccessPreventionLaws.pdf|access-date=May 21, 2018}}</ref>

In 2019, the [[United States Secret Service]] released an analysis of targeted school violence, concluding the best practice for prevention was forming a "multidisciplinary [[threat assessment]] team, in conjunction with the appropriate policies, tools, and training".<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.secretservice.gov/data/protection/ntac/usss-analysis-of-targeted-school-violence.pdf |title=Protecting America's Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence |date=November 2019 |publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security |author=National Threat Assessment Center, United States Secret Service |access-date=February 24, 2020}}</ref> An earlier report published in 2018 concluded there was no single profile of a student attacker, and emphasized the importance of the threat assessment process instead. The threat assessment process described includes gathering information about student behaviors, negative or stressful events, and what resources are available for the student to overcome those challenges.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.secretservice.gov/data/protection/ntac/USSS_NTAC_Enhancing_School_Safety_Guide_7.11.18.pdf |title=Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence |date=July 2018 |publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security |author=National Threat Assessment Center, United States Secret Service |access-date=February 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220024224/https://www.secretservice.gov/data/protection/ntac/USSS_NTAC_Enhancing_School_Safety_Guide_7.11.18.pdf |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref>