I am glad the situation was resolved and I think I would let this incident be over unless the school does something else silly.
Blame it on liberal schools if you like, but let's look at some facts. Columbine wasn't a single incident. In addition to the multiple killings, there has been a rash of shootings at schools and what seems to be an increase in the number of kids caught with guns on school grounds. I don't think that a week goes by without hearing about some young idiot that came to school with a gun. And who knows how many don't get caught?
In Chicago, a city with some of the strictest handgun laws in the nation, 348 school-age children have been shot this year. Fourteen of them died (not to be glib, but thank heavens they are apparently really bad shots). Almost all of the shootings were done by other students.
Yes, we all know that gun control laws seldom work, but that's not the point.
The result is parents screaming at the school system "What are you going to do about it?" Mind you, they are not asking themselves what they can do about it, like educating their children about firearms or keeping their own guns locked up; they're demanding the school and government do something about it. So schools erect metal detectors and start hiring armed police forces and adopt "zero-tolerance" policies and states enact strict regulations that say even persons licensed to carry cannot have a firearm on school grounds. Why? Because that's all they can do. When it's not enough, they try the "guns are bad" indoctrination. I don't like it, but I can understand it. They're hoping to raise a generation of students who won't bring guns to school.
When I was a nine years old (and Eisenhower was President), my classmates and I drew guns all the time. Mostly machine guns shooting Nazis or something like that. We all knew about guns and some of us owned them (or had parents who owned them for us). But I never recall anyone ever bringing a handgun to school, not even for "show and tell." The only time I remember anyone bringing a gun of any sort to school was in in high school was a fellow who brought in his dad's shotgun, with permission, for use in a school play. The student gave the gun to his teacher who had it locked up in the principal's office. After the play, the gun was returned to the student who took it home.
We didn't have uniformed and armed police officers in our hallways. In high school, the assistant principal had a a piece of paper on his door that said "NCHS Police" because he was in charge of school discipline. It was a joke (though he wasn't: he was very strict). That was as close as we came.
I am not trying to excuse what the teacher did or say that public schools don't go overboard with the political correctness thing. But before we shoot from the hip, perhaps we ought to ask ourselves what could be done instead of what's being done? Schools don't have infinite resources and sometimes one size does have to fit all.
So, what would you do to curb school violence (at least the lethal kind), satisfy parents and make sure no kid has to suffer through what Winter Borne's son endured?