Sheesh.  Just when you think that you've seen everything, something new pops up to blow my socks off.  This whole thing with Virginia Tech makes me realize that America's innocense is gone.  When did our society start going downhill like this?

When I was a sophmore in high school, on my 16th birthday no less, a bomb threat was called in to my school.  Earlier that morning we were doing our WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) exams.  After two hours of testing, regular classes started up again.  After our lunch break, we recieved the news that all students were to go home as a bomb threat had been called in.  Keep in mind this was just a few weeks after Columbine.  My school was lucky - it was just some little a-- wipe, s--t for brains freshman who thought it would be funny.  Needless to say he wasn't laughing when administration found out.  (Of course it didn't stop him from doing it again the next year.)  Then, when I was a senior, I was out at our local community college (I did college classes in the morning and high school classes in the afternoon), someone called in a bomb threat there.  That was interesting, as I was sitting eating breakfast when my friend who worked at the bookstore yelled down from the second floor balcony that they were evacuating the campus because of the bomb threat.  My friends and I boarded our city buses back to our respective high schools (and told the driver what happened, who then radioed the depot to let all of the drivers know) and spent the day wondering what kind of a sick person does these kinds of things.

We'd like to think that we're safe at school.  That nothing bad will happen.  It's the blind faith in the system that has created some sort of weakness.  The fact is no where in America is safe.  That became painfully clear after someone opened fire in an Amish school.  I want to believe that good people still exist but with everything that's going on today, I find it really hard to.