They have succeeded in criminalizing the mere mention of a gun. (The existence of a gun is irrelevant)
They have succeeded in indoctrinating and conditioning the litle lemmnigs that guns are evil and the educational system is always right.
A year or so back a school was shut down because a man in camouflage was seen walking in the school.
He turned out to be a graduate who was stationed at the nearby Selfridge ANG base. He wasn’t even armed, he just looked like he might be.