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...Paducah, Kentucky, Pearl, Mississippi, Littleton, Colorado, Edinboro, Pennsylvania and Springfield, Oregon have resulted in a sense of fear for children and their parents (Reddy et al, 2001; Donohue, Schiraldi, and Ziedenberg, 1999). Educators, students and family alike all wonder how safe are our schools. The tragedy at Columbine High School was brought into our homes via our television sets (Reddy et al, 2001). The images of students with hands over heads as they left the building while heavily-armed law enforcement officials helped those innocent kids will no doubt stay in many of our minds for a long time to come. But, these kinds of incidents are rare in our schools (Reddy et al, 2001). They can be likened to airplane crashes. So few occur and the tragedy is so great when a plan goes down that it receives a great deal of attention in the media, causing people to think that flying is the least safe way to travel. The same is true with school shootings. The actual...