I still stand firm in what I said before...In fact in the town I grew up in, there were a couple individuals who carried guns to school. For instance second grade a fellow named justin(I know his last name but won't put it on here for his identity) who brought a small pistol into the classroom that he got from his father.
Another example would be the two seperate incidents that a pistol was pointed at me at school, once in a class room and once in a bathroom asking for my wallet. And trust me I wasn't at all provoking this type of behavior it was very typical of most students at that school, I usually carried a small pocket knife in my third pocket for protection from other students.
Here is another example, one of my best friends when I was middle school decided to take his mothers .38 special and shoot it around in the house one afternoon while she wasn't there because she pissed him off. Now had she either not owned a gun, or been responsible and put it in a case or w/e then i'm sure that wouldn't have happened. Hilarious none the less because his mom was a freaking bitch and def. deserved the holes in the walls.
see the thing about putting a gun in a case for "protection" makes no sense to me, you lock it up and thena burglar comes in the house, it's night time or what have you, and your going to go piflering around in the dark looking for your gun case and unlocking it to protect your family.
On the other hand, if you have a gun out or in a convient place where it is easily obtainable, then it does serve a more effecient means of protection in this scenario, however then it presumes the threat of a child or other person misusing the gun and it being linked back to your own negligence.