In reality, according to the American Federation of Teachers, violence has actually been dropping in schools over the past decade. In a report by Scripps Howard, disruptive kids are the biggest problem schools face. What is a problem, is chronically disruptive kids in classrooms. To put Columbine in perspective, the AFT notes that the percentage of students taking weapons to school has been dropping. According to recent surveys only 10 percent of public schools report serious or violent crimes to their local police, and 43 percent report no crimes at all.
Students are more than twice as likely to encounter serious violent crime while out of school.
Less than 1 percent of children murdered in a year are killed at school. This is little comfort to those who lost family members in Littleton, but the reality is, liberals, as an excuse to excise the Second Amendment of the Constitution are using this incident as a battle cry. They are shamelessly and falsely trying to ramrod their agenda through by making the NRA and gun makers the scapegoats for unfortunate events that occur in our society. Further irony is that fact that the very liberals who condemn the NRA have led the way in the degradation of our society into the valueless, deviant, and amoral swamp it is at present. Bob Wilson is a pilot and businessman living in Arizona who writes regularly for the Spectacle .