[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by classicman

<snip>Do we even know how the boy got the gun?

FWIW: here is your ever-reliable Fox News to answer your question...
Note: These are only "school-shootings"

Fox News
2/28/12

School shootings and where students got their guns

A list of some school-shootings and where authorities believe the students obtained guns:

Feb. 27, 2012: Seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane arrested following a multiple shooting
in a school in Chardon, Ohio, outside of Cleveland.
Three students died and two were wounded in the spree, which started in the school cafeteria
as he and other students waited for buses to other schools.
Authorities did not immediately say where they believe Lane got a .22-caliber handgun.

Feb. 22, 2012: A 9-year-old boy in Port Orchard, Wash., brought a .45-caliber handgun
to his elementary school where the weapon discharged from inside his backpack,
critically injuring 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman.
Authorities believe he got the weapon during a visit with his mother.

April 19, 2011: A 6-year-old boy accidentally fired a gun inside Ross Elementary School
in Houston, Texas, injuring himself and two other children.
The boy and his mother were staying at the home of Wrolandrea Hensley, 30,
who had hidden the gun under a futon cushion.
The boy found the gun on the floor.
Hensley was charged with making a firearm accessible to a child.

March 25, 2011: Michael Phelps, 15, shot another student at
Martinsville West Middle School in Martinsville, Ind.
Phelps had stolen the 9mm handgun from a family friend's home.
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The article goes on with school shootings in 2006 and 2005.
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