It's probably also the mental health [1], less intimacy with their peers (imo reflected in [2] teen sex plummeting), less face time with peers in general in part due to increased homework loads (if you went to school in the 90s, your kid is prob doing 2x the hw you did) [3] which is of dubious effectiveness anyway [4].

I'm not saying it's not the guns. But I am saying that the US is the only developed country with the problem on this scale and it's a probably a far deeper cultural issue than just access to weaponry.

Forcing students to wear clear bags is ridiculous security theatre to the particular detriment of students with needs from (possibly undiagnosed) scoliosis etc. Thank God that there are no winter coats which could easily hide a pistol and several mags or a knife! All this policy achieves is scaring people.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/amer...

2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/28/teenag...

3: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/20/the-way-u...

4: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homewo...