Additional thoughts on Columbine

            I wonder if schools have really made much of an improvement since Columbine because I really do not notice much of a difference in the ways schools work before and after the incident. Most schools, at least from the ones that I have been to, do not have metal detectors so I really wonder how we could have made an improvement if a kid walks into a school with a gun tucked into his or her pants. To compare this to another situation, airport security has definitely made an improvement, perhaps even to the point of being called paranoid, about catching bombers. In both cases, whether it is in a school or an airport, lives can possibly be in danger, so why is it that schools are not as strict as airports? Perhaps it takes into account trust toward the students. Maybe schools simply trust that their students would not go as far as to bring a gun to school, even though it has already been done. Using the internet to research how many shootings have taken place after Columbine, I found that there have been sixty three. I think that this number is just way too high, and it makes me question what exactly schools are doing about the situation. However, whatever is being done, I personally do not think schools need to be very strict about bringing weapons to school (to the extent of having students searched every day for weapons), but I feel as though schools are not doing enough to prevent possible shootings in the future. Perhaps metal detectors should be required to be installed in all school entrances as a safety precaution. But, now I wonder if having metal detectors in school will provoke dangerous students to bring weapons to school in some sort of act of rebellion.