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Old 12-17-2012, 05:45 PM
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I have assumed these measures were put into place post-Columbine in an attempt to prevent a similar tragedy.
That's one reason, along with more general concern about unauthorized access to schools and to students. Here all middle schools have at least one "resource office" (a sheriff''s deputy); high schools have more.

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I can only hope that once the initial trauma of Friday's events has faded a bit, our country can have an honest, open discussion about our obsession with firearms.
Yes, and about mental illness, and about densensitization (is that a word?) to violence in our culture, and . . . .
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