Increased Parental Responsibility and Gun Control Helps Decrease School Violence
             Sitting on the couch after a long day at work, I decide to turn on the television to forget
             about my worries. All of a sudden my life is snapped back into perspective. My rough day
             consisted of whether or not I remembered to bring a refill of Pepsi to one of my customers. The
             children of Santee, California were wondering if their classmates and friends made it out of
             high-school alive. I sit in awe of this tragedy, wondering what happened to the days when
             high-school worries were whether or not you will have a date for Prom. The worst thing my
             classmates and I could imagine happening was getting hit with a piece of pizza during a food
             fight. Never did we worry that during that food fight someone would come and open fire in the
             cafeteria. This school shooting, which resulted in two casualties and thirteen wounded, is one of
             many in the past few years. President Bush made a statement about the increase in gun violence
             at school, stating that it was a parents responsibility. Although it may not be all the parents
             responsibility they do play a role in what their children, and I emphasize children, do or do not
             What I plan to discuss throughout this paper is that increased parental responsibility and
             gun control helps to combat the rising problem of school violence. After all the recent school
             shootings such as the one mentioned above in Santee, California or the infamous Columbine,
             many people begin to question what makes a child bring a gun to school. Law enforcement
             officials have used psychological profiling to bring serial killers to justice, now school districts
             are trying it. The U.S. Education Department is handing out an "early warning violence
             prevention guide to every superintendent in the country."(Lord, 1999). Some factors in this
             profile include drug use, low self-esteem, cruelty to...