Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. Violence in schools has become a big problem in today's society. With all the people being injured or killed in schools by guns, knives, bombs and other ammunitions, more and more people are bring weapons in to our schools. According, to the survey taken after the in-school shootings nearly half of all males and one-third of all students including females said they could easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to. The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but mainly on one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence have been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths. Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes. Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more popular all around the world. Kids think that carrying guns around schools with them will make them cool or fit in with other kids like themselves. They're wrong. More and more kids who are carrying guns around schools today are getting caught and arrested. Since schools have gotten metal detectors and scanners, they have cut down the rate of having handguns in schools by nearly 58%. Security experts have reported that there is no evidence that a metal detector will solve the problem of violence in schools, even though it offers a highly visible symbol to the community. Even if schools with gun violence put in metal detectors at the front entrances of schools, their are many ways kids can sneak in weapons to school. In 1990 congress made it a felony to bring a gun within one thousand feet of any school under the "Gun-Free...
