“I grew up in Michigan gun country and there has never been a shooting at my old alma mater (Or any of the other half dozen school districts in this county)”
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When I was a schoolboy we all carried pocketknives, some of the girls did too. I can still remember my fourth grade teacher asking to borrow a pocketknife from one of us to open a package but I don’t recall a single time that anyone was attacked with a knife. People often drove onto the school grounds with a rifle or shotgun clearly visible in a rear window mount in a pickup truck but no one was ever shot. I am sure that many of the teachers had loaded guns in their cars parked on school grounds. Anyone who would have tried to come and start shooting would have been at risk from WWII and or Korean war veterans in their twenties, thirties or forties who worked as teachers or in other jobs around the school, not to mention that most of the non vets could shoot the eyes out of a squirrel at a hundred feet with open sights. Not exactly a soft target as compared to the situation today.
In my youth we brought our .22 rifles to school on Mondays because we used the range in the school basement for target practice (under adult supervision of course). Try that today and get swarmed by the local SWAT team.
Regards,
GtG
PS In high school shop class I refinished the stock on my .22 auto loader.