What shall we do about shootings in Memphis City Schools?

Since I am writing my movie review about the movie “Bowling for Columbine” by Michael Moore, the issues Columbine massacre and gun control are very interesting for me. Today, I found the article “What do we do about guns in school?” by “Common At”, posted on February 11, 2008 on the Memphis blogs “Commentaries.” In the last seven days, there were two shootings in Memphis city schools. The author recommended that there should not be any reaction, at all. In contrast to the author, one of the school board members suggested that the schools should be shut down until metal detectors are installed and on alert. In my view, both reactions are exaggerated. Come on “Common At,” do you really think that doing nothing will help anybody? There were two school shootings in less than a week in just one city and you suggest doing nothing??? Doing nothing helped Adolf Hitler to keep the power in Germany but it will not help to prevent shootings in school. On the other hand, closing all schools down is also exaggerated because keeping the students dumb will not prevent school shootings, as well. I suggest to search for the reasons of the shootings and to change these circumstances. Why is it so easy for a child in America to get a gun??? In my opinion, the selling of guns should be much more restricted by the government and there should be more efficient laws of gun control so younger people/kids are not able to get guns that easy. Furthermore, I suggest that physiologists should talk to these kids that shoot and find out the reasons for their reaction. In my opinion, the reasons would be single parents, poverty, drugs, discrimination, racism, peer pressure and the list goes on and on… In order to prevent these problems, fundamental changes in the entire American society have to be made which is not that easy than just put metal detectors in schools. Social problems have to be solved to prevent these shootings!!!