'Since the Columbine High School massacre, we have collectively failed to address troubled youths, easy access to guns and our cultural embrace of violence,' The Times Editorial Board writes. (via latimesopinion)
from Ball State University found that investing hundreds of millions of dollars nationwide in security upgrades achieved little more than creating a false sense of safety.for troubled students are the obvious ones.
Guns, in particular, lie at the heart of the violence. From the time of the Columbine massacre through 2016, the102 million firearms for domestic consumers . The industry is protected by the stubborn and cynical National Rifle Assn. and its allies, which make even modest attempts to control access to guns nearly impossible. The nation is awash in firearms, but as a culture, we’re also awash in violence, which we romanticize in movies, television shows and music.
As a nation, we like to view ourselves as the freest society in the world, yet we have more guns and more killings than any other advanced nation, and our solution is to lock our students in their classrooms and. Education in a bunker is not a sane response to this problem. Two decades ago, the nation watched in horror as the unimaginable played out over national television.
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