2002 Opinions & Editorials Archive

A high school teacher is informed by one of her students that a small band of disaffected teenagers is planning a Columbine-style massacre. They're going to bomb the school corridors, then shoot the teachers, jocks and preps. After they have killed just about everyone they can, they are going to go to the roof of the school, get high and then shoot each other.

Jerry and Susan Johnson live in Azle with their two children, Ashley and Aaron. Susan works two jobs for the Azle Independent School District and Jerry is on disability due to a hereditary ailment. The Johnsons, like 39 million other Americans, and one in four Texans, do not have health insurance.