Thanks, Robomatic, for bringing up the Bath School Disaster. I grew up only a few miles from Bath, and, in the whole time we were in school, no one ever said a word about it. In fact, I only found out about it as an adult.

However, several times a year, every year, from the time I was in kindergarten until I graduated high school, we were evacuted from our schools, to the farthest part of the play fields, while the police and fire departments scoured the building, in response to anonymous, telephoned bomb threats.

If this shows anything, it is simply that silence is no protection--people still know about them, and continue to act them out--