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School Shootings Joe Faul

 __School shootings are very complicated issues with only a few solutions.__ This violence is rooted in psychological imbalances within the students themselves, poor parenting and decline in significance of traditional institutions along with the guilt forces they rely on for effectiveness to name just a few. Yet few of these ideas have any element of common sense and even fewer offer any strategic solutions. __January 29, 1979-October 2, 2006 there have been 62 school shootings.__ 

__In a nation nearly devoid of critical thought ‘viable’ solutions manifest as banning trench coats, backpacks, black clothing and expelling students for nail clipper weapons Pensacola, Florida June 1999 or jailing 7th graders that write Halloween essays with violent overtones Ponder, Texas October 1999.__ Every psychologist, every news anchor or opinion columnists, and every politician has an idea of what must be done. In this reactionary environment panic, paranoia and irrational thought pour down like monsoon season. The actions the authorities are taking are all that can be done, locker searches, dress code, and exorcising everything questionable or objectionable pretty much defines the legal standards and acceptable limits on school powers of authority and supported by Supreme Court decisions. But what may seem surprising is that despite the control trying to be taken in public schools, the cameras and the security guards, shootings and violent actions still continue.  __These shootings can be caused by something as little as someone’s shoes being stolen because kids today steal for a living.__ Our society has become something where teens and even younger kids think that it is easier to steal things from other people and sell them to make money. Today people who have had stuff stolen from them in the past are tired of their valuables being stolen or even tired of being picked on. Then they do something crazy like bring guns to school and shoot everybody who have treated them badly.  Here’s an example of a little problem that could turn in to a school shootings. A high school student sits in class. BAM! A balled-up piece of paper hits him in the head. Anger rages through him. The bell rings class ends the room empties. He gathers his books. The same students who threw the paper ball walk by.   They knock his full binder off his desk. Papers are sent flying. Later that day he's walking down the hall. The "leader" of the hate crew sticks out his foot, tripping him. He lands flat on the floor. Loser! This situation happens every day at schools, over and over again, over things as trivial as music or clothes. This boy sits alone on the bus and walks home. His shadow is his only companion. He plans his actions along the way.   He comes to school the next day and brought a gun that no one knew about and shot all of them and then killed himself. __Northern Illinois University students and staff are shocked and looking for answers after a lone gunman killed five students and wounded 16 others before shooting himself.__

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