Chinanews.com, September 2, comprehensive report, on the occasion of the new school year, American campuses are again shrouded in the shadow of guns.

A few days ago, a 4-year-old boy went to school with a loaded pistol at an elementary school in Corpus Christi, Texas, causing the school to be blocked for a time.

Local police are urging gun owners to keep their firearms safe and out of the reach of children.

Data map: On August 24, 2022 local time, a shooting occurred near a high school in the Northwest District of Chicago, United States. Four people were injured, one of them seriously.

The picture shows Chicago police cordoning off the crime scene.

Image source: Visual China

　　According to reports, school administrators at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Corpus Christi learned of a student carrying a weapon on the campus around 9 a.m. on Aug. 31.

The school was then sealed off, and local police were dispatched to confiscated weapons.

　　Investigators confirmed the gun was owned by the boy's parent.

The boy's father has been arrested and charged with supplying a firearm to the child, among other charges.

Police are also urging gun owners to ensure their weapons are properly protected and checked frequently, and kept out of the reach of children.

　　Not long ago, on August 29, at a school in Cochise Township, Arizona, a 7-year-old boy was also found to go to school with guns, one of which was not loaded, but was placed in a school bag with a full magazine. Inside, the other was hidden in the school office.

　　Also on August 29, at a middle school in Oakland, California, a 12-year-old student was detained on suspicion of shooting and wounding a 13-year-old classmate.

　　When they learned of the shooting at the school, parents drove to pick up their children, and the roads around the school were blocked for a time.

"It saddens me just to think that a kid would bring a gun to school," said Oakland Police Chief Armstrong. "No parent would want to send their kid to school in broad daylight and get a call that the kid was shot. It's the worst thing in the world. Bad news."

　　Oakland Mayor Schaff is frustrated by the ongoing gun violence that has hit the city and the United States.

"Schools should be the safest place for our children," Schaff wrote on social media, "while the level of gun violence in our country and our cities is heartbreaking."

　　Recently, there have been frequent school shootings in the United States.

On May 24 this year, a man armed with a gun broke into Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and shot and killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers.

It was one of the deadliest school shootings in America.