Metal Detectors in Schools
Imagine that your child attends a public school, as the majority of children in the nation do. One day, you’re not feeling too well, so you decide to relax, take a sick day and stay home from work. You’re in front of the TV, watching some lousy daytime soap, when the local news station breaks through with a report of a shooting inside the local school, where your teenage son goes. Worst case scenario: your very own son is an unfortunate victim, undeserving yet nevertheless subject to the wrath of this crazed student killer(s). Not likely, you say? Probably the same idea in the heads of parents in Columbine, Jonesboro, and countless other less celebrated cases of these horrible shootings prior to the massacres.How might these incidents be prevented? Well, nobody can say for sure. One of the most popular ideas has been the installment of metal detectors at the doors of our schools. Needless to say, any parent (or anybody) would rather see on the six o’clock news that two students attempted to enter a school with an arsenal of weapons with intent to kill but were caught by metal detectors than to see that they were
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Approximate Word count = 757
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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