I like how PaperLuigi keeps telling us in every post that before the 1980s, there have only been about two school shootings.
We learned this in your first post, you don't need to tell us over and over again. You're basically restating your arguments in all of your posts. Chup's name calling is bad, yes, but repeating things to us as if we're slow-witted people with the attention span of a 5 year old with A.D.D. is even more annoying, in my opinion.
I have jokingly stated in the past that the spanking in school rule should be reinforced whenever some student drives me crazy, but ultimately I don't think it should happen, because it doesn't work. Most bullies, in my opinion, are lost causes. if they won't learn for themselves to change their ways, they'll never learn, period. It's just like back last March when we told CTOAN not to bully that flamboyant child. He got all mad at us because we sided with the kid he was bullying and kept telling us we couldn't change him (he was right on that point, he has to learn that for himself). Look at how that ended here.
We could sympathize with the people who caused the Columbine and VT massacres, yes, but there are TONS of other, more rational ways to deal with bullying and venting anger besides coming to school with firearms and explosives. Teachers CAN and usually do enforce suspension and expulsion in cases where students have been traumatized to a certain point, I know this, because it has happened with people that were in my class back in middle school. Kid was sent to juvenile hall for brutally hurting another student. We never saw the guy again.
A smack on the cheek, wrist, or butt won't enforce anything, though. Forced enrollment of problem students to military schools and the like MIGHT work, but that might be a little too extreme, in my opinion. I DID like BP's idea of scaring children good and early when it came to smoking, I think it could also be used for bullying, show progressive images of children who were bullies in school who turned into thugs and gangsters who broke the law and ended up imprisoned.