I got my first gun at 12.
I've never been shot.
Proof!
/sarc
Seriously though, when I was in High School, I literally took my hunting rifle to school with me on the bus, and kept in my locker during class. After school, I walked home, hunting.
I wasn't the only one.
Any psychos came to my high school, they were toast. Never was one incident involving firearms at my school.
Why? Because there weren't rules preventing law abiding people from having guns, leaving criminals the only armed, and unstoppable, folks with guns.
Thimk!