e my dad, tell him I slit his throat in this dream I had.” (Leland, 1999) It is not certain if these words are the result of symbolism, but many young children don’t realize that it is just a song. As far as the Internet goes, there are sites from everything from “how to make homemade bombs” to layouts of schools to devise a plan, to terrorist websites. There aren’t many restrictions when it comes to the Internet, and if there is an adult-only website, any ten year old can say that they are eighteen. As with video games, over one-third of the top 100 games are School Violence 8graphically violent. Parents aren’t aware all the time of the games that they purchase. If a child plays a game (there is one called Sniper) in which the object of the game is to collect guns and blow people’s heads off. It goes back to a child being able to differentiate between fiction and nonfiction. It is believed that if parents can monitor their child’s intake of violent media and materials, then a decrease in school violence is likely to occur.In order to solve this problem, there needs to be legislative as well as local actions taken in the order of punishment and prevention. Legislatively, if more of these kids who murder in school are tried as adults rather than being in jail for only four years (in some states if a fourteen year old murders someone, then that child can only be in jail until age eighteen), then it would probably make a child think twice about what he or she is getting into. Another legislative solution could be a restricting of mass gun sales, making it harder for people to sell guns in the black market and therefore making it more difficult for children to get there hands on a gun. Locally, it is important to have a staff of police officers in schools to allow a safety measure for the students and faculty, as well as a quicker response time for local law enforcement backup to ...
