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Children on the Firing Line

Children on the Firing Line THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Sidney Saylor Farr "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King So far this year, security police in the Lexington, Kentucky, schools have seized two semiautomatic handguns, a number of butcher knives, and a ementary, middle, and high schools. Five of those twenty-four weapons were taken from elementary students, and six from children in middle schools--including a pupil who came to school on February 20 with a loaded .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun. Guns are not the only concern, however, because many students prefer to carry knives. Lexington schools have never been considered particularly dangerous, especially when compared with those in New York, Chicago, or Los Ninja star, among the twenty-four weapons found on students in el- Angeles. There are 32,000 students in Lexington's public schools. Out of those, the number of students involved in carrying weapons to schools is small, but the figure is reflective of the situation in Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, and other Southern Appalachian states, as well as states across the nation. No longer is the problem confined to schools in the Bronx or Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, and other big cities. Let's look squarely at some of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Children on the Firing Line

Appalachian Review , Volume 20 (2) – Jan 8, 1992

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Abstract

THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Sidney Saylor Farr "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King So far this year, security police in the Lexington, Kentucky, schools have seized two semiautomatic handguns, a number of butcher knives, and a ementary, middle, and high schools. Five of those twenty-four weapons were taken from elementary students, and six from children in middle schools--including a pupil who came to school on February 20 with a loaded .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun. Guns are not the only concern, however, because many students prefer to carry knives. Lexington schools have never been considered particularly dangerous, especially when compared with those in New York, Chicago, or Los Ninja star, among the twenty-four weapons found on students in el- Angeles. There are 32,000 students in Lexington's public schools. Out of those, the number of students involved in carrying weapons to schools is small, but the figure is reflective of the situation in Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, and other Southern Appalachian states, as well as states across the nation. No longer is the problem confined to schools in the Bronx or Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, and other big cities. Let's look squarely at some of

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1992

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