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To assume that every student at Columbine High school now advocates the
usage of insulting invasive searches is quite ridiculous. Examine this
thread quite closely, not one person has issues with the same aspect of
the school violence issue. Assuming that because someone was in the same
building as a shooting that this person will instantly convert to a
given set of thinking is a bit [just a teeny bit] off the mark. That is
like saying the everyone who was in a certain building in Oklahoma is
an advocate of the death penalty. The media/press may display
exclusively** pro-death penalty persons but that does not mean everyone
in that building advocates the death penalty as the same applies to a
Columbine High School.
**(My observation, I may have missed an exception)
Furthermore, it could be argued that the shooting was a direct result of
the conformist nature that has been instilled into the schools. It has
been observed by many that any cog that does not conform to a specific
set of guidelines is instantly out-casted.
I have also thought it to be humorous how DARE preaches resistance to
peer pressure for drug usage while the schools compromise that vary
message by manipulating students to pressure other students to conform
to a given standard and other half baked solutions. This almost looks
like a no-brainer. Who will win in a student versus school argument?
Again, I will reiterate this, setting up metal detectors will not
prevent violence. If someone wants to shoot the school up / blow the
school up; they will. There is no changing that. Setting up the metal
detectors is only a superficial idea that would only act as a means of
something to be planned around when plotting out an act of violence.
Furthermore, the recent round of get tough on youth that commit acts of
violence is farfetched and going beyond what is necessary.
Why is it throughout history when the choice has been made for security
versus rights security has always won? (Security from violence, job
security, national security) Perhaps it is time to re-examine these
priorities. (Reference: WWI, WWII, 1920 s, 1950 s, 1960 s; also see FBI
involvement during these periods; the Committee of Un- American
Activities, shall I continue digging?)
David Dittmann
On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 01:25 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [Winona Online Democracy]
>
> Mr. Thompson seems to return to his one overriding theme here, that the
> change of violence happening at any given school is rare and therefore
> there is little or no need
> for security. I wonder how many students in Littleton, Colorado felt
> that way until one fateful April afternoon in 1999?
> Dean
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