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Should High School Students Be Searched for Guns?

by Brett Singer, Posted Jan 19th 2011 10:17AM

Backpack contents: Homework, lunch and ... gun? Credit: Getty Images Two students were shot at Gardena High School in Los Angeles. But this wasn't another Columbine. The shooting was an accident -- a fellow classmate had a gun in his ...Should students have to pass through metal detectors or undergo some kind of weapons check before entering school?
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Back to school shouldn't mean back to bullying

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 20th 2008 4:00PM

School should be a safe place, one where kids can concentrate on learning, not on staying alive. Sadly, however, that's not always the case. "If you're afraid you're going to get beat up after school, it's hard to concentrate when you're in algebra ...
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School shooting in Finland

by Angie Felton, Posted Nov 7th 2007 11:59AM

An 18 year old student turned gunman killed 8 people and injured at least 10 at a Finnish High School today. Hours before the massacre, Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted a video on YouTube titled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007". The clip, ...
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Mom buys son a handgun because he is unhappy

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Oct 13th 2007 8:01AM

If you had a brooding, troubled teenage son, what would you do to help him feel better? Take him to a movie? Fix his favourite dessert? Well, if you're this Mom, you'd buy him a gun. Her teenaged son, allegedly slow and overweight, had been picked on ...
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