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(18,652 posts)living or working in the low income district of any large city. Youths can and do get guns regularly, not only to protect themselves but to threaten and harm others for some slight like suspecting someone took a piece of jewelry. (This was the reason one youth was shot in DC last year and during his funeral, several others were shot in retaliation).
One of my wonderful hs students in the inner city was accosted by two other hs students who showed a gun and asked if he was a certain person. My student said no, and luckily he had a school ID and showed it to them. They all then had a pleasant conversation and the gunmen went off to find their target.
One block from the school, a young mother was shot while boarding a bus with her child. She was shot by the child's father.
"Occasional?" Get police reports from large US cities daily and you will see regular youth violence with guns.
What is your solution to youths getting guns illegally? Loosening up gun control laws, I suppose