I swore I wouldn’t write this essay. Then I swore I wouldn’t submit it to The SandPaper. But the thought that haunts me is that something unspeakable could happen here. It’s hard to imagine what it feels like to go to school and worry that some nut might invade your sanctuary and cause great damage.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the guns in schools problem. The more I thought, the more I realized what a complex situation it has become. We have almost always had schools and the same for guns.