Why Are Our Children Shooting Each Other in School?

"The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload..." Some of you might remember those lyrics from the song "I Don’t Like Mondays."  It was written in 1979 by "sir" Bob Geldof, who was in a new wave band called The Boomtown Rats.  Geldof wrote the song after learning about an elementary school shooting that had occurred in a quiet suburb in the city of San Diego, Calif.  In January of that year, 16-year-old Brenda Lee Spencer killed the principal and a custodian and wounded eight children and one police officer when she opened fire on the Grover Cleveland Elementary School with her .22-caliber rifle.  Spencer fired from inside her house, which was located across the street from the school.  During the shooting, a local reporter talked with Spencer over the telephone and asked her why she was doing it.  Spencer said, "I just don't like Mondays...this livens up the...(Read Full Article)
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