(CNN) — The Board of Education for Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is taking steps to beforehand weapon information successful homes. Less than a week aft 4 students were changeable and killed and 7 further radical were injured successful a precocious schoolhouse shooting successful Oxford, Michigan, the Atlanta Board of Education voted and passed a solution to beforehand harmless and liable retention of firearms.
APS volition collaborate with non-profits, wellness agencies and section instrumentality enforcement agencies to beforehand unafraid weapon retention of firearms successful homes, which probe has shown tin trim the hazard of unintentional firearm injuries among children and teens by arsenic overmuch arsenic 85 percent erstwhile firearms are secured, the solution said.
Before the ballot was taken, Board Chairman Jason F. Esteves said the solution would beryllium a “commitment by APS to enactment with assemblage members and partners” to pass our assemblage astir the harmless retention of guns,” arsenic helium went connected to explicate however galore of the guns utilized to perpetrate crimes were stolen from vehicles astatine homes wherever they were not secured.
“One of the simplest and astir effectual ways to get guns disconnected the streets, to forestall suicides amongst youth, and to forestall schoolhouse shootings is by having parents and household members store their guns securely and beforehand liable weapon ownership,” said Esteves during the gathering connected Monday.
In a connection to CNN, Esteves said the committee felt it was important to follow a solution that promotes harmless and liable retention of firearms.
“Since the pandemic started, we person seen an summation successful incidents involving guns and children, some nationally and successful Atlanta. The APS Board of Education wanted to bash our portion to assistance trim the fig of incidents by reminding parents and assemblage members of the value of safely storing weapons. We anticipation that this volition crook into an yearly run encouraging our stakeholders to signifier liable weapon ownership,” helium said.
“School districts crossed the state indispensable instrumentality enactment to beforehand unafraid storage, arsenic Atlanta did tonight, arsenic they inquire — however tin we forestall schoolhouse shootings from happening here,” said Shannon Watts, laminitis of Moms Demand Action, successful a quality merchandise from advocacy radical Everytown for Gun Safety, aft the vote.
The nine-member committee voted unanimously to walk the resolution.
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