A whole classroom dies every two days. But those statistics don't rile everyone, and that makes nurse Smith angry, too. People there, she said, tend only to worry about violence when some horrible rampage sweeps the news. They don't want it to be near them. But it is near them.
Violence can manifest itself differently in suburbia.
After the Columbine High School rampage, Smith was angry with her suburban neighbors and the media. This isn't an inner city problem. It's everybody's problem.