After Columbine, I never thought that we would hear anything about school shootings again. Security was stepped up and school officials kept a closer eye on “troubled” students.

I thought wrong. First were yesterday’s shootings at a school on an Indian reservation in Bemidji, Minnesota. The guy killed two of his grandparents, 7 people in his high school and injured 15 others. Then he killed himself. All this in a high school of merely 300 students where they probably never thought this sort of event would happen.

Then we find out that a student at Racine Case was caught carrying around a sawed off shotgun in school today. Details are still sketchy, but rumor has it that the boy was in a gang and students said that he had been talking in recent weeks about killing other students. You know, the usual afterschool activities.

These are the types of kids that I wish I could get inside of their heads. I wish I could know what their parents teach them. I wish I knew how they got these morals where SHOOTING OTHER PEOPLE IS OK. I wish I knew how schools, especially one like Racine Case, didn’t stop this gun from even getting into the school in the first place.

Schools are a place to go and be educated. Not to fight and kill people. I always thought metal detectors in schools was a silly idea, but I’m beginning to think otherwise. If a student’s only motivation is to go to school to hurt someone, keep them out of schools. It’s not right of them to ruin the futures of other children.