Obviously no scan procedure for students entering the school, bet that changes.

Oh yea - that'll fix everything.

Yea, a scanner at every door will fix everything. Go ahead and put them at Wal Mart, grocery stores, churches, etc....anywhere any human might go. That'll stop tragedies like this from happening.

We live in a free society, please leave it that way. Scanners are not the solution. What's to keep someone from standing outside the school with a bat, a knife, a chain, a rock, a gun, a rifle, or a canon in the back of a pick-up truck! If we treat kids like hardened criminals they will behave like hardened criminals. The solution is alot easier and cheaper than we all care to admit. It starts at home.

I don't recall Phil Hastings or his policies preventing the 13 stab wounds received by a young female Decatur High School student in 1993. I will also remind you that it was another young female student wielding the large kitchen knife in front of the school that afternoon. No scanner would have helped her either.

Phil Hastings was still a basketball coach in 1993, Yes prevention does start at home, but we have to take steps outside of the home as well, if that means we put medal detectors in the schools then so be it, I dont like it anymore than anyone else but I would rather my child be safe, Times have changed and we must change with them, society has gotten lazy with our youth, parents have gotten lazy with child rearing, within the next few days I would almost bet that there will be a story ( excuse) as to why a 14 yr old planned the murder of another person, to me there is NO excuse there is NOTHING Todd Brown could have done to warrant being shot and killed, To many times when someone commits a horrific crime people make excuses, if you had the right mind to plan it exicute it then you are just as sain as I am . People are not held accountable for their actions anymore. Everyone involved at Discovery needs our prayers, including the suspects family.

I, too, encourage everyone to pray for the suspect and his family - as well as the victim's family. I am a mother and I can only imagine how you would feel if your child took the life of another . My thoughts and prayers go out to all of them. I truly believe that the schools do a great job in trying to protect our young people. There is not enough discipline at home. You need to start when they are in the cradle because if you don't, it becomes too late. There is no respect anymore. For life, person, feelings, authority or property. We need to go back to the days of where parents could discipline their children without fear of interference by the law.

Folks, we keep coming up with tougher and tougher "rules" to deal with this stuff and is it working? No. It seems things keep getting worse instead of better. How about we go back to what used to work? That means allowing the schools to discipline the children in a way they fear. When children respect and fear authority, instead of the other way around, then you will see changes for the good.

Part of the problem is also how we now criminalize some of the smallest things due to knee jerk reactions to violence in schools. A kid can't defend himself against a bully because the system does not sort out the right and wrong, they just haul both off to law enforcement. A couple of kids get in a minor playground scuffle, they are treated like criminals. Used to be, the principal we handle it, sort it out, deal out the discipline, and many times the to parties had resolved their problem and become friends. We have taken away the logic in handling these situations. We also have taken away the ability for these kids to resolve their own issues or cope with them when we are constantly intervening or codling them with everything they do.

If I am wrong, then again I ask you, is the tougher rules, "no tolerance", and gun detectors in schools working? It doesn't seem so. Discovery has resource officers stationed at the school and it did not stop this kid from shooting a kid he apparently had a problem with. How about we stop handcuffing the principals and teachers in how they run their schools, with policies and rules that are not working, and let them go back to what used to work. You always have a few bad apples in schools, but back in the days, the worst those bad apples would do was get into a fight in which most of the time nobody was hardly ever hurt. Now, the bad apples are bringing guns to schools and shooting people. Our kids social and coping skills are horrible and it is our fault that we let it happen. We have not let them develop the skills to handle their peers. Those kids grow up to be adults that have the same issues, and if they have kids, they are going to pass that down. Anybody else but me see the ugly cycle that has started here?