More than 90 percent say such screening should be going on. These results are among several in the poll that raise concern about the risk of more attacks of the kind that struck Columbine High School last week. About half say there's already a gun at their home. Nearly a third of students have heard a classmate at their school threaten to kill someone. One in five students report classmates at their school whom they consider to be neo-Nazis or skinheads.
Parents are less likely to know about it.
Not Panicked Still, Columbine has not incited anything like panic among most students or parents. Sixty-one percent of parents agree. But clearly there's room for improvement. Anxiety runs higher among parents, even though they're less likely to know of potentially violent students or cliques. Barely over half of students say their schools currently do it.