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I decided to read something different than what I normally read which is normally from the Fisch Bowl or 2¢ Worth. But today the post I read was from The Denver Post and was titled Students report gunmen on playground and was written by the Associated Press. It talks about how some children claim to have been threatened by 2 strange men on their schools playground. Not much information was given in this post but it is still a very troubling matter.

What matters: There have been so many school shootings in Colorado that the U.S. must think that everyone in Colorado has messed up minds. The school that this happened at was in Grand Junction at Lincoln Orchard Mesa Elementary School. Seven children reported the gunmen to be a teacher on Monday. They described the men to be between the ages of 14 to 25 years old. But when the deputies went to the school they found no sign of the men. But the deputies have no idication that the children were lieing. But if you think about it, this happened to children in elementary school who tend have a good imagination, but when you think about the amount of children who spotted the gunmen and were threatened then it seems impossible that that many children could tell the same exact story. This is also a very troubling event to me because if there is another school shooting then the security in all schools, especially in Colorado, will be so strick that students won't even be able to go outside.

What matters to me: This is not a good sign for schools because this indicates that schools aren't doing enough to secure its students. Even though no one got hurt this time, next time someone will and there will be devistating consequences. I also really want the school shootings to stop. It is really sad when people are so cruel that they think that children deserve to die. I want my school to stay protected and still be able to have off campus. But I'm not sure that we can do this and still be safe. When will this madness end!