Should Teachers Carry Guns?
District of Columbia asked the U.S. Supreme Court to sustain the city's 30-year-old ban on handgun possession. The key legal questions were whether the constitutional right to bear arms applies to individuals and, if not, whether the district's gun not it’s the control ban violates that right. http://ezproxy.mcckc.edu:2071/pqrl/docview/233338304/13DCC6D328E16E26F9E/1?accountid=2182 Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy
Anonymous. Adolescence37. 148 (Winter 2002): 855. http://ezproxy.mcckc.edu:2071/pqrl/docview/195941769/13DCCA24F045243DF3/2?accountid=2182 Preventing Violence in Schools: includes voices of school students, accused of practicing violence, who have been participants in violence prevention programs; analyzes a citywide peer mediation program (who benefits and who does not, who is mediated and who mediates, and what the implications of these findings may be); examines the kinds of violence recognized in schools and the ways schools themselves may perpetuate violence; and describes a violence prevention program for students at an alternative school.
Preventing lethal violence in schools: The case for entry-based weapons screening http://ezproxy.mcckc.edu:2071/pqrl/docview/232581547/13DCCA150E060DE5336/1?accountid=2182 falseMawson, Anthony R
; Lapsley, Peter M; Hoffman, Allan M; Guignard, John C. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law27. 2 (Apr 2002): 243-260.
Current proposals for preventing school violence include punishing the violence-prone, expulsion for weapon carriers, and creating a culture of nonviolence through various behavioral methods like conflict resolution. None of these proposals address the issue of lethal violence and hence personal safety. The risk of lethal violence in schools (related mainly to firearms) could be substantially reduced by creating an effective barrier