The boy exchanged the handgun for $300 in February. The incident was discovered after ammunition was found in the backpack of the other student Wednesday.

Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed.

A deputy’s son “agreed to exchange a handgun, (later found to belong to his deceased father), for a sum of $300” back in February, the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The Country Oaks Elementary School was placed under lockdown Wednesday morning after the sheriff’s office received a call about “a suspicious incident” on campus. Authorities discovered ammunition in the backpack of the boy who purchased the gun.

The gun was later found in his backyard under a shed, hidden with a 74-gram bag of marijuana, according to investigators.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      16·
      7 months ago

      That removes ALL other factors, and simplifies too much, it doesn’t ask why a 10 year old kid had 74g of marijuana in the first place.

      Guns are part of the issue, drugs are part of the issue, family and social life are part of the issue, finances are part of the issue

      Just going “gun bad” solves nothing.

      I do wish the US would institute proper gun control systems, like a national registry, with random checkups on how guns are stored. It won’t happen, the gun lobby is too strong.

      I am glad I live in northern Europe where we don’t have the obsession with guns that the US has.

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I mean, we don’t even remember how your nation was formed, and we had to literally kill to NOT be a part of your nation any more, so…that’s part of it.

        • stoy@lemmy.zip
          3·
          7 months ago

          The US had to kill to not be part of Sweden?

          …

          Wait, the UK is part of northern Europe now?

          This is the first I have ever heard of either!

          • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            From Wikipedia:

            Northern Europe might be defined roughly to include some or all of the following areas: British Isles, Fennoscandia, the peninsula of Jutland, the Baltic plain that lies to the east, and the many islands that lie offshore from mainland Northern Europe and the main European continent

            So yes - The UK is considered “Northern Europe”.

            • stoy@lemmy.zip
              2·
              7 months ago

              Ah, I have allways thought of the UK as being part of Western Europe, sounds a bit odd including in Northern Europe when it is so far south of Sweden and Norway, but eh I am not quallified to change the definition…

              • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
                2·
                7 months ago

                I am glad I live in northern Europe where we don’t have the obsession with guns that the US has.

                Not confident enough about the geography of your own area but 100% confident about the details of legal system in a country across an ocean. Funny how that works. You know how the less we know the more confident we are in it? No? Guess they don’t teach critical thinking in Northern Europe.

                • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
                  2·
                  7 months ago

                  Hey dude, definitions of rough regional areas are based off of culture, politics, geography,and history only one of which is written in stone. For example I consider Spain to be part of both Southern and Western Europe due to being entangled with both regions. You are basically throwing a hissy fit over the geography equivalent of “water vs wader”.