I live kinda by this school, this kid is a fool, and they started training them at a young age. Wait, when he gets out of his school, and get a job, and sees how much they take in taxes, then maybe he will learn.
Or maybe if they taught the Consitution for once.
c-rock
[url]www.illinois-shooter.org[/url]
Start with guns
Tamar A. Rubin
May 19, 2001
Skokie -- I am a junior at Niles North High School. Upon walking into school April 20, I was faced with a wall of teachers and security guards with metal detectors, which they waved over entering students and their backpacks, searching for weapons.
This heightened security was in response to a threat of violence made by a student, promising to make April 20, the anniversary of Columbine, a bloody day at Niles North. We had been informed of the threat the day before, and throughout both Thursday and Friday, a feeling of tension and fear buzzed throughout school. It will probably never dissipate entirely.
When Columbine occurred, I was a freshman, and I assured myself that my school was different, that a shooting would never happen there. I never felt unsafe in my school until April 19 of this year. And there is only one reason for this fear: guns.
There is a wealth of issues that have been brought up when blame is passed around for school shootings--lack of school security, bullies, cliques, movies, songs, video games--the list goes on and on. But shock rocker Marilyn Manson didn't kill the students at Columbine or Santee, Calif., or anywhere else. They were killed by bullets.
The National Rifle Association can wax poetic on the right to bear arms, but cannot dispute the fact that none of those kids would be dead today if the shooters hadn't been able to get guns, which are now so frighteningly obtainable. If kids couldn't get guns, then the "bad influence" of TV violence, which politicians love to scapegoat, would be a moot point. Support entertainment industry reform, support Internet regulation, rally for better-prepared police and security--fine. But ignoring the most immediately important measure--gun control--is not only ludicrous, it's offensive. It's offensive to the memories of the victims of past shootings, and it's offensive to the students at my high school and every school in America that has had to juggle the desire to keep students safe with the effort not to convert schools into prisons.
If a shooter comes into my U.S. history class, a V-chip isn't going to do much.
I don't disagree that the factors that build up to the desire to commit violence need to be remedied as well. But millions of teachers, parents and students would certainly appreciate it if politicians started with guns. I know I would.