What can we do to avoid having another school shooting?

i thought columbine would be the end of school shooting for awhile and here we are now with the virginia tech shooting, my question is what can we do to avoid things like this from happening again?

What can we do to avoid having another school shooting?
girls, give a hug to the lonely guy in class.
Reply:It will happen again and again and again -- nothing can be done ---- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shoo...
Reply:Get to know the quiet people in your classes. Make friends with them instead of making fun of them. If they seem mentally ill, don't just run from them, see if you can get them to the counseling center. If you think someone is kind of weird or doesn't have any friends, you should try to make friends with them. (I also think we should make it harder to buy guns; longer cooling off periods for example.)
Reply:a ton of people are going to hate me for this, but gun control. gun control gun control gun control. yes, the constitution gives us the right to bear arms, but arms werent semi-automatic when that was written. i have been to countries that have strict gun control policies and the crime rate is so low....if this man didnt have access to guns, it sure as hell would have been a LOOOOOOOTTTT harder for him to do this wouldnt it? i know there are people who wouldnt get a gun to go shoot some place up, but in this day and age, when you cant honestly predict who is going to do what....you kind of have to watch everybody. yes, this kid was quiet and withdrawn and wrote violent things, but so is my brother and he wouldnt even think of killing anyone because he knows its wrong. so picking out all the quiet people isnt going to help because some of the quietest people i know are actually some of the happiest most well adjusted. meanwhile some of the loudest are the scariest people i have ever met. you cant predict what people are going to do but if you make it harder for them to get weapons they are less likely to do it
Reply:Number one increase school security.


Number two make it tougher to gain access to guns.


Number three pay closer attention to troubled students.
Reply:It's not just schools but post offices or businesses; but school shootings will happen, because human personalities are eternal. There will always be bullies, abused loners, violent angry people with an attitude, innocent bystanders, negligent officials, well-meaning bureaucrats, people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time, gun dealers who follow the law, teenagers desensitized by violent media, people who love to be victims and have lawyers, heroes, victims, bystanders, on-lookers, negligent or abusive parents, loving parents who can't help, mentally disturbed persons who can't get help, governments who don't spend enough on social services, governments who spend too much on the wrong social services, people who don't care, people who care and work... It's the human condition. Although in America, the human condition is kinda demanding... We are a special case. Just be kind where you can and it will pay off for you in the long run.
Reply:destroy all guns in the world. that way we don't have o buy guns to protect ourselves from other people with guns. But then we would probably have more school stabbings:(





it scary to go to school the way the world is these days. I'm a high school student myself
Reply:raise security. teach people kung-foo
Reply:I'm a public school teacher and we had a kid bring a gun to campus last semester. I'd say that it's hard to detect when a youngster is about to hurt himself or others. In the end, I think tragedy can be prevented by knowing the students well enough to be able to detect changes in habits. As teachers, we get so little training and some of us just do not have the time or patience to simply pay attention to our students. Having an outstanding school psychologist helps, as does keeping tabs on students who are at-risk. I found a suicide note from a student in my late work box last year and we were able to get the student help. Some things, on the other hand, are impossible to prevent. The young man at Virginia Tech was deeply troubled- perhaps the hardest thing for us to grasp would be his isolation... where were his professors? Where was the counseling department? Where were his peers? People in our society become so isolated.. we need to start watching over each other and taking care of each other and to know our neighbors.
Reply:You can't. It's unfortunate, but you can't. You can add more laws, more restrictions, whatever, but some f***ed up dude will find a why to do it again.





People in this world are messed up. If they stopped thinking about themselves things might be better.
Reply:I'm just amazed that there wasn't a lockdown or officers, with lights flashing, posted at main entrances or thoroughfares. I went to college on a very large campus. Every main entrance had a guard station where they checked for parking stickers and issued visitor badges. There were no checkpoints at VTech?


My common sense would tell me that if I saw a huge police presence as I was walking onto campus, I'd turn myself around and find out what was going on... from a safe distance!


What if the VTech police/officials asked for assistance from local police in helping keep students and staff from coming in to class/work that a.m.? I think the outcome would have been very different. But that is water under the bridge now...


Even at the primary, intermediate, and secondary school levels in our large city, if there is a robbery, reported murder, incident involving a criminal with a gun within a certain vicinity of a school, until that person is apprehended, nearby campuses go into immediate lockdown.


Having worked in three different states, I see a big difference when a campus develops a plan of action that involves faculty and staff as proactive participants. As a teacher, I feel that I have certain responsibilities to my students that will keep them safe in the event of an emergency. If campus staff is trained and there is a proceedure in place, although a tragic event may occur, its severity might be greatly lessened.





God bless everyone affected by this horrific event and may He comfort the friends and families of those innocent victims. They are truly in a better place...
Reply:you missed quite a few school shootings between columbine and now.





What can we do?





improve our schools, kids shouldn't have to go to school and get bullied while the faculty is apothetic.


encourage social health in our children: organized sports vs pc games
Reply:SHUT UP!
Reply:Hello, I also thought the school shooting would end. But I am wrong because of the awful shooting that happen at the Virgina Tech University. To avoid things like this in the future i personally think we should start taking the lonely people more serious. If someone is writing horrible things and doing obscene things then maybe we should really look into it and not throw it on the back burner for us to deal with later. We should also have better security at these schools. I am a high school student and sometimes i dont feel protected when i come to school because we mostly only have one police officer in his office on duty. Most of the time the officer is away on other business. We should definitely pay more attention to the little things and keep more security in these schools and universities!! I am also praying for the killed and wounded victims of this horrible event
Reply:if everyone had a gun we would think twice about shooting people in public
Reply:We can't

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