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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.