Along the lines of what amycat412 said, these things ARE more prevelant now than they were in our glory days of high school.
When I was a Freshman the only thing that I can remember happening at my high school that was scary as hell, was a bomb threat. The thing that made it scarier was it was a couple days AFTER the Oklahoma City Bombing. We had three total bomb threats that semester!
But after the Columbine insident my former high school tightened security and took steps to try to prevent incidents like this (shootings) from happening.
It's a scary, scary world out there now. I'm already afraid for my unborn children. It's so sad to think that we used to be sent to school by our mothers, thinking that was the second safest place, next to our homes. Now it's just as unsafe as an unlit alley.
Very, very sad
