School Safety, 10 Years After Columbine
To protect schools better, students need to feel more comfortable to speak out, researchers say
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"The Columbine Cause"
According to the 30K+ pages of government files related to the Columbine attack, dozens of corroborating eyewitnesses described in detail or outright named other shooters to police. The other reported shooters included other CHS students in the trench coat group and an unidentified adult. Ten years later, we are still debating who Harris and Klebold were and why they masterminded a shooting but what if that's only a tiny portion of what happened? You can find a presentation about this information at http://www.xmail.net/evanlong/tcc/ or http://www.TheColumbineCause.tk/
Steve Body
Steve put it perfectly. It's not metal detectors, cops, cameras and what not that need to be installed. It's discipline.
Most people are to stupid to realize the truth. The VA Tech shooter put it clearly but most ignored it.
Kids are shooting up schools and other students because they've been picked and picked on until they can't take it anymore. The real issue is that most school administration are friends with the "rich" parents who generally will not get in trouble for this. (this isn't trying to classify just them, other kids do it as well, i'm just clearly speaking on behalf of what i'd seen in high school (farely large one, mind you)). What needs to be prevented is kids bullying/picking on other kids and going unpunished. this is what truely leads to school shootings. Not Video Games, Music, and Movies. That's just a way for parents to point the blame away from themselves.
Columbine
I've been reading dozens of long-winded essays this morning, full of wistful, "if-only" prose and scholarly ruminations about why Columbine and Virginia Tech happened, many of which blamed it on our gun culture (which I abhor as much as anyone) or our overly-permissive society or lack of parental supervision. It's all intellectual band-aids; a handle for those who don't want to face the truth. It was our children who brought on these atrocities. It was the self-indulgent and primitive attitude of "I'm better than you", rolled up like a newspaper and used to smack kids who "don't fit in" or are too quiet, too smart, too Goth, too unattractive, too un-athletic, too ANYTHING. Yeah, the easier availability of firearms (Thanks, NRA. How's your legacy lookin' here in 2009?) made it possible for kids like Harris, Klebold, and Cho to kill faster and more indiscriminately, but they could have been wielding baseball bats or flame-throwers; the lack of guns wouldn't have changed a thing except the sheer numbers.
Teenagers today had better get the lessons of Columbine and VA Tech an get them quickly. Parents had better start hammering it home from the earliest age at which kids socialize: Picking on others for their perceived differences, formerly just considered harmless "hazing", is now a capitol offense, punishable - in the kangaroo court of teenage "justice" - by death. If the Columbine parents heaped their unfocused anger on Brooks Brown because he befriended Harris and Klebold, it might do them well to ponder what would have happened if THEIR kids had befriended them. They might be alive today, to be reviled by other grieving parents - a trade-off with which, I suspect, all of their parents would be quite willing to live - operative word "LIVE". If you display the attitudes at home, with your kids, that encourage the belief that some people are better and brighter and more privileged because they are prettier or play football better - or make more money and have a more-impressive title - YOU are sewing the seeds of the next Columbine.
