School used to be a simple red building with a bell on top and belle inside. Today, some high schools use metal detectors and armed security guards to keep the peace. There have been 173 violent deaths in U.S. schools in a four year period. Recently in Los Angeles, a five-year study proved once and for all that schools are safer than the neighborhoods around them. According to the National School Safety Center, violence in the classroom has killed 251 Americans since the 1992-93 school year. California is the leader with 56 deaths, Colorado (15), Florida (14), Texas (13), Georgia (12), Washington (11), New York/Pennsylvania (10), and Illinois and Missouri (9). Is it guns, parents, video games, movies, hormones? Well, in one example Kip Kinkel, the 15 year old who shot 24 schoolmates (2 dead, 22 injured) in Springfield, Oregon, made a class presentation on how to build pipe bombs and read about his plans to kill everyone from his diary in Literature class.
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