You can't

stop a kid who is bent on bringing a gun to school and

killing people. There is not a way. There is no perfect

solution. No quick fix. But with these laws that they are

discussing, they are looking for a quick-fix. The average

student isn't going to bring a gun to school. Period.

There are

more average students in a school than there are the

extremists. Extremists are the few students who are

willing and capable of bringing a loaded gun to school

and killing people. The extremists are the minority. So

far in the history of our country, there have been only a

small handful of these people who actually acted. Because

of those people, the average student is the one who will

be confined unreasonably because of over-cautioning

against these few type of people.

Now let me

tell you this: If you pass these laws, it will be a

useless gesture to what you are trying to accomplish.

When such tragedies as Littleton happen, worried, hectic,

frantic people in the middle of their search for the

answer "Why?" turn to the Fayette County School

Board and demand a solution to protect their innocent

children.

The school

board, with a blank expression on their faces, has no

answer. So they simply fumble around 'til they find a

half-thought-out solution to present to those worried,

frantic people. The solution they present is not the

answer. The worried, frantic people who haven't a

solution in their minds are presented that solution.

Suddenly, those people believe this is it! This is the

answer! They only think this because they have no other

answer to dwell upon.

Yet it is

not the answer. Confining our student body to yet a

stricter dress code, or maybe even uniforms, is not going

to do the trick. In most cases of school shootings, the

shooter(s) walks straight in, gun in hand, and kills, to

put it simply.

It would

not have made one difference if the kid was wearing

skintight clothes even, they would've walked right in and

killed. If there were guards they would've killed the

guards and then killed the students. If there were metal

detectors they would've walked through them, then killed.

Clothes

won't stop a determined kid. Neither will making students

go without the services of a bookbag, which makes

absolutely no sense at all. As I mentioned before, in

most school shootings, the people walked in with their

weapons. That cannot stop an armed kid apt to kill.

Nothing can. That is why these laws that are proposed are

useless.

But if you

pass these laws, an average student's rights are being

taken from him. To go as far as not letting an average

person not to be able to wear what clothes they want to

wear, or having to carry several heavy books around with

them, is just plain wrong. We all suffer because of

somebody else's crime, and that is an injustice.

There is no

quick-fix solution to the problem before us, and I

believe I speak for the average student when I say these

laws are not the answer.

Ben

Hurst

[email protected]

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