Hey, my old High School might be in that movie. Jersey Village High School, Houston, Texas.
We had a shooting in my biology classroom at the end of a school day in my Sophmore year.
Ah, the good ole days.
After that the staff came up with a school warning system to let everyone know if there was someone with a gun in the school.
They would come over the intercom and announce "Code Red". Teachers would lock the doors and the students would all gather together at the far corner of their classrooms.
Thankfully, we never had to use it.
I haven't seen or heard of the electronic do-dad on guns yet. Not likely to see many, if any, of these measures passed in Texas, the Gun Capital of America. We have more guns than people. (And you think I'm joking, don't you?)
In Jr. High we had metal detectors, and all backpacks had to be clear, or see through.
In High School all we had were cops. At least 1 Constable, 1 District Policeman, and 1 Jersey Village Policeman were in and around the school at all times. We even had to wear I.D. badges around our necks for the last 2 years.
And we're not talking inner city here. Jersey Village is a city about 20 miles from Downtown Houston, on the outskirts of town in the suburbs, with a population of about 6,800. It is mostly just a neghborhood.
Now, if you want to talk about a scary area to go to school, the University of Houston is in about as bad an area as you can get. I am 6'5", almost 400 lbs. and there is no way I would go over there at night. I don't even like going in the daytime. And I always carry a pocketknife with me.
I can't even count the number of times I've driven down Scott Street just to see the road blocked with cop cars on a drug bust. They would cordon off an entire block to do so.
Man oh man. Sorry, didn't mean to go so off topic there.
BTW, yes, we are aware that most of those who perpetrate these crimes are the ones who have themselves been bullied by their victims.
2 things should happen. #1, parents should spank their bully children every once in a while. #2, parents should not allow access to their guns by their children when they are not there, but if they do keep a gun in the home, they should teach their children early on how to use it and that it is a very dangerous weapon.
It seems that most of those who have done these things have never used guns before, or have never been trained on how to use them and for what purpose. If they are trained from an early age, then it won't seem as such a thrill to them.
It's like me. My parents let me drive up home, and I mean up in Central and East Texas where my grandmother was raised, even when I was 11 or 12. On those old dirt country roads I became a very good driver.
I had no problem at all when I took driver's ed, and was even experienced enough so as not to need a constant instructor (I was shifted to about 5 different instructors because I already knew what I was doing and they didn't want me taking room in the car away from those who needed it.)
I have never had a wreck, and I've only had two tickets.(One for speeding because my grandmother was in pain from riding for over an hour when we went upto see her brother, and the other when I got impatient behind a car doing 55mph in a 70 zoe and passed him. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that it was not a passing lane and that the car was the unmarked Sheriff's car.)
I was allowed to "have" alcoholic drinks, or at least sample, from an early age, about 10 yrs. I guess. I've never been drunk or even had an urge to go out to the bars and get drunk.
When you show your children early that what they "want" is not as glamorous as it appears, it will lose its appeal to them. It's the same way with guns.
Teach your children what they're for and what they're not for, and take them to church so they can hear how a child of God is supposed to act to other people, and you should no, or at least very little, problems.
