Word: gunness
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Here's a fun fact to get your blood pumping: One in five teenage boys admits to taking a weapon (gun or knife) to school with him at least once in the past 12 months...
...that's not all: According to a study released Monday by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics, almost half of all high school students said they could get a gun if they wanted...
...Perhaps those numbers don't carry the kind of shock value they might have 10 years ago, when denizens of America's comfortable middle-class communities could still pretend gun violence only happened in urban (read: black and Hispanic) schools...
...chilling, if only because they reinforce every parent's worst fears about life at today's high schools. Those fears are, of course, for the most part fabricated out of the media's breathless, round-the-clock coverage of school shooting sprees. In fact, government records show that gun violence at schools is actually down 65 percent from the 1970s - but these days, the violence gets better coverage. It's spreading out of the inner city and into the "I never thought it would happen here" confines of Middle America. That, America has decided, makes violence newsworthy...
...usual, even as Americans profess shock and dismay over the latest figures, no one seems to have any idea what to do about the proliferation of guns into our schools. Unexpectedly, however, if you ask for input from the spokespeople of the nation?s staunchest gun-rights and gun-control organizations, there's more unanimity than conflict. Everyone, it seems, is in favor of teaching kids how to deal with problems that come up at school - bullying, fistfights, cliques - without resorting to violence...