What is up with all the almost school shootings lately?
482465
it means kids can b a pain in the a** sometimes. \nseriously speaking, its happening more often because of the environment we live in. ppl hardly hav respect for the person sitting next to them. every1's busy and if a lil thing goes wrong they get cranky. students these days are less tolerant than ever. take the french student rebellion for example. and parents need to instill more ethics in their kids by spending more time with them. a person's raising results in the man he becomes.
934787
That people like me should be lined up and shot. Aren't we lucky they aren't allowed to do that any more.
439701
I did a totally layman's search of the Internet and found nothing except articles about videos being shot. Maybe your friend only heard part of the story?\n\nI know, no help. But I tried. :)\n\n~Tia~
987279
Yes it happens here where I live as well (Ohio). It is terrible. The problem seems to be a lack of respect for one another as people. I have seen what a young black man has done to his so called friend over something stupid. It is amazing to me still that so many seem to rush to violence over minor things that could be solved by just talking it out. Men need to quit worrying so much about their rep & saving face. So called men need to grow up. Killing because someone made fun of you, took your woman or owes you money is way too permanent a solution for a temporary problem. We all know that sticks & stones..., there are other fish in the sea & money is only paper  are old adages that should apply. Not death, grief, prison or death row. We need to teach the young men of today (which are most of the perpetrators) forgiveness, humility, respect (for self & freedom) & to quit taking life for granted. It is too short! Another big problem is that they need to realize that family is the most important thing. Not so called friends that will leave you in the dust when things get rough. I have known many people have attempted to instill what is right (myself included) into the young people of today. They still seem to want to follow the wrong path no matter how many friends are killed. I don't have the answer. So many seem to live on the edge & blatantly don't care about the lives of others as if they have no humanity within them. All we can do in the end is keep talking, offering guidance & love them. I hope one day the killing stops. The human race as a whole needs to learn a better way.
1115972
Crime is up because society has done away with discipline\ncant spank kids at home\nschools cant correct behavior\n\nRemove all right and wrong and society implodes\n\nMy opinion
673014
Sadly, nothing appears to be wrong.\nAs of 12:34 EST\n""Senate Sergeant at Arms Bill Pickle told Reuters there were no reports of any arrests or injuries though several ambulances were brought to the scene.\n\n"We have been told by staff of shots fired and the smell of smoke," Pickle said. He later raised the possibility that a firecracker might have been the cause.""\nThey are still under lockdown, but searches have turned up nothing.
698227
I think that many children are starting to sit up and take notice because things are not the same as they were six years ago. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins going to Iraq. Soldiers being killed on what seems to be a daily basis. These aren't things that will escape their notice. Unfortunately, with the current administration, the age of childhood innocence isn't what it used to be.
763833
Doesn't it depend where you are? But ours is about a guy getting convicted of creating a bomb....or something like that. It's okay but last years was a murder.
491492
Technology advanced, and the younger generation just haven't learned self discipline. They are becoming more lazier because of the new technology. No longer do kids have to walk to school, they can take the bus or drive to school. Even bikes are no longer becoming an option! I see kids taking their electric scooters to school! Its getting really sad now.\n\nbut what do you think about this\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgqlIP_uxrr6kgeI32vQNLnsy6IX?qid=1006052000004
1075349
i've just gone through this "whats the world coming to", today...\nI live in perth, australia and an 8 year old girl was raped and murdered in the public toilets at the shops by this 21 year old and a few weeks ago a 16 year old girl was murdered and buried by her 2 16 year old "friends" \nIt disgusts me we share air with these people, who knows why all this stuff happens?? people are just fucked up!
881077
Well living in NJ I get NY news so I hear everything that happens there. I think in a whole the NYPD are good people doing a difficult job but like in life there are a few bad apples. Now talking about what happened to the 23 year old who just got killed I think 50 shots is ridiculous. I can't say it was a racial thing and it could have been a white guy who had gotten killed just the same BUT (and I don't know all the facts) it sounded like the guys were trying to get away from the cops. I think the Cops (who were undercover) may have just looked like a bunch of guys with guns pointing at then so they wanted to get away. They were in their car ramming other cars and almost hitting a cop but maybe they didn't know he was a cop just a wacko with a gun pointed at them and if it was you wouldn't you run someone over or hit some cars to get away? Now they are saying that one of them was over heard saying he was going to get his gun before this all happened and that is why the cops followed them but none was found and no shots other then the cops were fired so I am thinking it isn't looking good for the cops right now and I am sorry for the family of the man who died! It stinks!!!
916519
I thought it was wonderful! This program should be mandatory in every middle and high school. You have to wonder, what has changed soo much in our schools over the last decade or two?\nWhen I was in school (class of 94) we might have had a few "bad apples" but never the violence you see today. I'm almost afraid to send my kid to school. In fact, his school was on lock-down today for an incident at a nearby high school. He came home with a note that gave no actual details but he claims to have heard gun shots. This scares the crap out of me!\nIf you know a teen, sit them down and ask them what's going on in their life. If you know they have a sick parent, offer to cook them dinner or clean the house for them. Be their "soft place to fall". This is not just a teen problem - it's up to ALL of us to fix this.
1154859
Nothing that elaborate. It's mostly from the schools that are already standing and how crowded they are.
869321
No. Around here a big deal crime is drunk driving or petty vandalism. Around the nearest big city it is drive-by gang shootings setting new highs in the murder rate.
399262
More states need it. Oh my gosh too much of it is going on. When I moved out here to Arizona in 1982, a little girl was going to have breakfast with her father and she went out to look for her cat and her father found her in the desert dead. Someone had raped and killed her. \n\nIt is beyond me how anyone can hurt a child and it just infuriates me. There are so many sickos and a lot of them are here on the internet as well.  I nicely asked that these kids do not give their e mails out and I have left messages for girls who are desperately looking for a boy to chat with. \n\nI just keep my fingers crossed that this law spreads. Before putting the suckers to death, they should take an electronic knife and NIP HIM RIGHT IN THE BUD!! \n\nKids cannot even walk to school and feel safe anymore. \nThey deserve to be safe.
332587
I think it is stress.\nI mean people are stressing kids to do well in school while still being active and adults are mad about gas prices and the troops being in Iraq (Which could be stressful on the kids too) It is just the way the world is now-a-days
36729
Sadly, I think that in all urban areas, they should do this. But, this just dosen't happen in cities, it's starting to happen in suburbia as well. I think that it is up to the school itself. If you know you're in an area where there is a rapid growth of gangs or gang-like activities, then it should be a no brainer. As for suburban area schools, I think that a medal detector may be a little too much but that they should have at least a couple of guards on hand. Just in case. In five years, I predict that a fourth of America's schools won't have medal detectors of any kind. Because that's how bad it is going to get. Sad.