Shared on one of my Facebook groups. The high school in question is on Long Island.

This week, Westport’s high school (the town I live in) had a gun scare. A hormonal teen threatened to shoot up the school, and an alert fellow teen told the school administration, who contacted the police. The police found a cache of guns at his home, including an AR15. His parents’ defense was that the guns were locked in a safe.

I will never forget, as a teen, babysitting for a family friend’s kids in Lloyd Harbor. The dad had a gun, locked in a gun cabinet and had thought he unloaded all the bullets. Another babysitter was there that night. The 12(?)-yr old son, removed the gun from the cabinet, and fired a couple of rounds, and saw the first chambers were empty. Then he pointed it, joking, at the babysitter and fired. There was one bullet left in the last chamber that he did not know about and he killed his 16-yr old babysitter-something that he -and his parents -have had to live with for the rest of their lives.

A lot of lives were destroyed that night by a hidden, locked, “unloaded” gun.