eatened or injured with a weapon on school property throughout the year. In the report also included was that nationwide, 4% of students had missed 1 or more days of school during 30 days preceding the survey because they had felt unsafe at school or when traveling to or from school. Theses statistics show that students are afraid of going to school, they don’t feel safe and something should be done to change that. There should be no reason that students need to bring weapons to school in order to feel!
             safe. According to a recent report issued by the Department of Education, over 6,000 students were expelled in 1996-1997 for bringing guns to their public schools.
             It is illegal for anyone under 21 to buy a gun and anyone under 18 to buy a rifle or shotgun. The reason teens buy guns is because many people have them and they fear that one day they will get into a dilemma and get shot so they believe that they will be safer carrying guns. . In 1996, 5 percent of all 12th graders reported that they had been injured on purpose with a weapon such as a knife, gun, or club during the prior 12 months while they were at school, and 12 percent reported that they had been injured on purpose without a weapon. This number has not significantly changed during the past 20 years. Between 1993 and 1997, there was an overall decline in the percentage of students in grades 9 to 12 who reported carrying a weapon to school at least 1 day in the prior 30 days. About 3 percent of high school seniors reported carrying a gun to school at least 1 day during the previous 4 weeks. In the 1992-93 and 1993-94 school years combined, 63 students ages 5-19 were murde!
             red at school. The number of multiple –victim homicide events at school has increased, from two in the 1992-93 school year to six in 1997-98.
             A survey conveyed by Sarah Tippit from Reuters on April 2nd, 2000 was called "Many Students Used Violence Last Year". A majority of U.S....