Ever since becoming a parent this kind of tragedy really gets to me. I’m glad I don’t have a gun in the house anymore, at least. Consider doing the same, if you’ve got babies. They can be clever before they’re smart, it’s not their fault they wanted to impress their friends.

You should teach your kids basic gun safety anyway imo. Because they could go to a friend’s house where there’s a gun.

The only true protection is educating them to not do stupid things.

I plan to, as appropriate. It’ll be less commonplace now we’ve emigrated to the UK.

Living in the UK, I have never seen an actual firearm outside of specialist police and museums. Nor has that presented any problems. shrug

I wouldn’t say I emigrated for any one reason, but fewer guns was one of the… many.

And before anyone says it, the only person to menace me with a knife has been my partner… and I think she was joking.

That’s for her to know :)

I do feel like the media coverage of knife crime is overblown. The violent crime rate here is pretty low, and yet you have to be an adult to buy a seam ripper. Knife sales aren’t the reason for rises in violent crime, inequality is. Hopefully we can begin to address that with a new administration.

I didn’t call her bluff, so who’s to say.

It’s comparatively low, but you take about the level of crime you have I guess, rather than crime you could have. I don’t hold much hope for whatever bizarre Frankenstein’s government is next in charge of the country, but we’ll have to cross that channel when we come to it.