[thecuban]

Originally Posted by Wyody

Once again, I think the problem AND the solution are bigger than just the issue that VA Tech brings to mind.
1) you can't put anyone with a gun around students. students will absolutely force gunfire just by being young, energetic, irrascible, obnoxious, overly smart, etc. Put a gun in a teacher's hand - someone will get shot. Put a gunman around students, someone will get shot ... and chances are high that it'll be the wrong person(s) getting shot.
2) I usually try to raise The Dufferz on this sort of stuff - but here's the deal: Our education system has far outlived it's usefulness. It's not this system's fault - it's just that the rest of the world has passed it up. Computers, Blackberries, Raspberries, PDA's, Cell-phones, cameras that talk, play, shoot and send, MP-3's.
It's time for Star-Trek. Gad, the social implications of not having kids in school - of being left to the "sound wisdom" of their parents - ....
We're Dinosaurs, Ladies and Gentlemen. I doubt that we can even fathom what the next step is - but there is a next step ... and somebody better come up with it pretty soon. Those "Hallowed Halls" we walked are obsolete. Those "Pep Rallies" we used to jump and cheer at - obsolete. Those bleachers we used to learn to smoke under - obsolete. Study Halls, cafeteria-lunch, choirs, bands, teams - obsolete. What are we supposed to do now?
(See, I told you we were dinosaurs).

I think you speak for a lot of us. We advanced and changed dramatically in a relatively short time. Unfortunately change is only good if it could better society in a whole. Your right the problem is deep and the solution is easily dismissed because most of us never want to admit the truth. The truth is that we all have had a part of what I call the deterioration of our society. We have continued to except little by little our inner most sins to be excepted and integrated into society. Want to hear what we did to top that? We went a head and placed laws protect the very things that is ruining our society from us. Then we have become a banded society not willing to admit how the wound occurred. Big mistake!! What we need is our leaders and soon to be leaders step up and admit what has gone wrong and start reversing the wrong doing. Then only then will the real healing occur.