Show 1 School shooting have gone too far Jessica Garrett Contributing Writer Students bringing guns to schools and on campuses for shooting reasons have Become all too common Since 1996 this awful trend has been steady in the United States but what is being done to prevent this act of crime I In 1996 two students and their teacher were shot and killed in Moses Lake Wash This was the only school shooting that year The story was different in 1997 and 1998 there were four separate shootings resulting in the deaths of one principal 13 students and two others There were f also 52 others wounded between these two years Perhaps the most well known of all the school shootings was in Littleton Colo Columbine High School In 1999 students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and one teacher before turning the guns on themselves Columbine got much more publicity than any of the previous shootings because the students had all of the plans forthe forthe for forthe the massacre written down School authorities also pinpointed that the students were bullied which was noticed as one of the many motifs for the planned shooting Later in 1999 the Columbine shooting was followed by three other school shootings only one person was killed and 10 were injured In a Michigan elementary school six- six year-old year Kayla Rolland Holland was shot and killed by bya a fellow year six-year-old classmate with a handgun Georgia Florida and Louisiana were also home to shootings in 2000 In 2001 there were four fatal school shootings andin and andin andin in 2002 there was only one Patterns of school shootings continued similar to those above until April 16 2007 In Blacksburg Va on the Virginia Tech campus year old student Cho Seung-Hui Seung killed two students in a dorm and two hours later killed 30 more wounding 15 more in his path He then turned the gun on himself making this the most deadly shooting in American history resulting in 33 deaths The shooters are all very troubled Some of the shooters motifs were over an girlfriend ex-girlfriend and some were tormented in school by fellow students Whatever the motif students should feel safe in school and their parents should feel confident of their childs child's safety while they are attending a public school Some schools have turned to metal detectors and x-ray x scanning machines in some high crime neighbor hoods but as for the rest schools are still waiting on technology answer to solve this all too dangerous problem |