I am grateful that the general atmosphere of this discussion has become more thoughtful. Again, though, whatever real solution we come up with will be maybe generations in the realizing. SO, what do we do in the meantime to keep such horrors as school shootings and neighborhood drive-bys from happening to (and being perpetrated by) today's kids? I can tell you that my students (in juvenile corrections) are not only growing in number, their admiration of all things violent is, if anything, more ardent than that of the ones I had a few years ago.

Chet W.