As weird as it may sound coming from a liberally-inclined pacifist like myself, I think this actually isn't such a terrible idea. I live about an hour and a half south from where the Columbine shooting happened, and a lot of the schools around here lived in a lot of fear for several weeks after that shooting. There were tons of copycat threats, and if an intruder had indeed been able to come into a school and start shooting, they'd have had a bunch of sitting duck targets.

My dad has been a public school teacher for 26 years, and he has seen the rate of violence in the schools skyrocket. This past semester, a girl in his current school got into a fight and pulled a switchblade knife on another student, and she didn't even get expelled for it! The same girl accused him of "touching" her (he's a music teacher and pressed her fingers down on the correct piano keys to show her how to play something), and they fired him without even asking what really happened.

If kids are getting away with pulling switchblades on other students, what's to stop them from bringing a gun to school the next day? I saw no less than three guns brought by students during my high school years; luckily, none of them was used on anyone thanks to myself and other students who reported them. The situation could have easily been much, much different...

~Emmy~

As long as your heart is the colour of all men, you will live forever.

He kotahi tatou me nga waiata - Through music we are one.
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