Columbine

Maybe it's just me, but I was thinking that too many people have forgotten about the massacre at Columbine. Some people may think that that's appropriate, but not me. One of teacher's junior year said, "If you don't learn history, then you're bound to repeat it." I think that he's right. If people forget about Columbine, then someone else is going to repeat it. Then it will be the same reaction all over again. I know that the tragedy at Virginia Tech may be the deadliest campus shooting now, but that doesn't mean that people can forget all the other campus shootings. If anybody died on a school campus, it's a tragedy. So why forget about it? The government or someone should establish a school violence awareness week and schools should hold assemblies to talk about the shootings so that students know that they happened. I want to think that the Virginia Tech shootings and Columbine massacre didn't happen, too, but what will that mean for future generations? As of right now, there is not one history book that I have read that talks about Columbine. You would think that a school massacre would be just as important as any war.

I am so against violence. I live in Chilhowie and I go to Chilhowie High School. Chilhowie is not that far from Virginia Tech. So April 16, 2007 was like 9/11 for us here in Southwest Virginia. I'm not talking about giving the shooters of these massacres more publicity, because I know that they don't deserve it. I'm talking about keeping another Virginia Tech or Columbine from happening.