It looks like two students at Snellville Middle School in Georgia were trying to MacGyver a gun together. One had the weapon, the other had the magazine. One of them even had bullets stuffed in their socks like some low-rent arms dealer. If that’s not the blueprint for a disaster, I don’t know what is. This wasn’t some innocent misunderstanding. It wasn’t a prank. This was two middle schoolers walking into school with different parts of a working firearm.

Let’s not pretend this is normal. It’s not. But it’s becoming routine. And the school district knows it, which is why Gwinnett County says it’s eventually rolling out weapons detection systems to middle and high schools. They’ll pilot it in summer school, but let’s be honest, this is triage, not prevention.

Let’s talk about where those gun parts likely came from. They didn’t pull them out of thin air. They didn’t order them off the dark web. They came from someone’s home. From someone’s drawer. From someone’s nightstand. Maybe from an unlocked gun safe that might as well not exist. You know, ‘responsible gun owners™.‘ 

This is where the conversation turns to parents. Because we’ve hit a point where no matter how many lockdown drills we force on kids, or how many scanners we bolt to school entrances, none of it matters if adults at home don’t lock up their weapons. Every single unsecured gun is a potential headline. Every loaded nightstand pistol is a time bomb waiting for a bored or angry teenager.

Also, let’s not get it twisted. These kids are facing criminal charges. Not just suspension. Not just a trip to the principal’s office. Their lives are already veering off track before they’ve even finished puberty.

But accountability starts at home. And it’s long past time parents stop crossing their fingers and hoping for the best.

Personally, I wouldn’t even keep a gun in the house if there were children living under that roof. But if I did, you better believe I’d check it every single day to make sure it was right where it was supposed to be. Anything less is an invitation for tragedy.

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• Gun, ammunition found at Snellville middle school in students’ backpacks