A first grader brought what he presumed to be a fake gun to school in San Francisco. I’m not quite sure what Public Defender Jeff Adachi is on about, though:
The two incidents happened a few days before the city public defender’s office is to hold its annual summit on juvenile justice. Public Defender Jeff Adachi said he will highlight results of an informal survey of incarcerated San Francisco youth showing that 28 percent believe it is sometimes or always acceptable to bring a gun to school.
“Unless you shift the culture, a culture that thinks it’s OK to have a gun, it’s going to continue,” Adachi said. “We’ve got to start early. High school is too late.”
It is OK to have a gun. It isn’t OK to bring it to school if you’re going to be raising hell, because raising hell is wrong. The gun and the trouble-making are not connected.
