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Originally Posted by Bonnevie
I took the time to read each of your citations and noted that none of them happened in a school. so, yes, others weapons can kill....but there seems to be some allure to gunning fellow students in the schools.
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None of them happened in a school. I wanted to illustrate that many things can be used as weapons and have by teenagers.
I agree with you that schools are no place children should secretly bring guns. Back in 1959 a problem kid I knew all too well brought a .22 rifle to school to use to threaten another boy who allegedly had showed an interest in his girlfriend. He had stuffed the rifle down his Levi's pant leg and was comically walking around stiff legged. At some point one or more male teachers spotted him and dealt with it. He should have been expelled but continued attending school apparently without a hiccup.
One of my classmates became an architect who designed commercial buildings, including schools. When I chatted with him at the 30th reunion he told me he was designing schools set up with metal detectors to screen entering students and other security features. I responded that sounds like what is built into prisons. He sadly nodded his head. What has this world come to?
Also at that reunion in 1990 we toured our old HS. It had a police substation installed in it. The neighborhood had radically changed and that area had become know as the "war zone".
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