Shomari Hudson

A Detroit police officer was reportedly injured after an accidental discharge inside the 10th Precinct locker room. The bigger lesson is simple: training and experience do not replace constant firearm safety.

A lot of conversations about young people and firearms start too late. We start talking after something has already happened — after a bad decision, after somebody gets hurt, after the police get involved, or after a family is trying to figure out how everything went wrong. I believe firearm awareness has to start before a teenager ever touches a gun. Not because we are trying to make every young person a gun owner, and not because we are trying to scare them. We teach it because knowledge...