Since the incident at Columbine High School, 39 teenagers have had their lives taken in
             over 22 incidents, and hundreds of others injured between April 1999 and April 2001
             (Hunter, 2). In reference to violence, Richard Riley, the Secretary of Education says,
             "[Violence] has turned many of our classrooms into war zones." (Toch 6). Reasons for
             such violence are due to the adolescent attitudes and great reduction in respect for one
             anothers life ( Toch 1). School Violence is a problem due to the violence in today's
             media, easy availability of guns and neglect in correlation with the lack of proper
             For instance, kids imitate what they see, and when they watch action movies, the
             bad guy tends to walk away happy and being congratulated after blowing away someone
             (Bailey 47; Schleifer 42). Kids who tend to see more violence such as in toys, movies, or
             videogames are often more prone to the idea that violence is not bad (Bailey 47). If you
             ever visit Kay-Bee Toys or Toys R' Us, take a walk down the toy isle. There will be
             nothing but an "assortment of toy guns and rifles, bow and arrows, plastic swords, knives,
             grenades, and space weapons." (Schleifer 15). The violence in today's media is believed
             to take an important role in school violence. In a CNN/USA Today/ Gallup Poll
             conducted in April 1999, 49 percent of adults blamed TV, music, and movies as the
             leading cause for school violence ("Public Opinion..." 10). Don't toy companys see the
             corruption that they are implemented into these children? They should do something in
             order to prevent such a violent artillery of weapons being out in the market. It has been
             calculated that by the time every American reaches the age of 18, they will have seen at
             least 200,000 random acts of violence and over 25,000 murders on television shows and in
             movies. The sad thing is that kids are exposed to such acts of violence, yet do not get to
             see the pa...