1.   Before you worry too much about your safety in class, consider that despite some well-publicized shootings, school killings are down from a decade ago.

2.   A stop to the anger that motivated the school killings in Jonesboro, Ark., Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky., and on and on.

3.   But the school killings in Littleton, Colo., he said, had brought back images of the combat he faced nearly half a century ago.

4.   He did note that after earlier school killings, the federal government had sent to all school districts a booklet describing early warning signs of antisocial behavior.

5.   In the wake of the Jonesboro school killings, the National Rifle Association has been on the defensive.

6.   Nearly six months after the Columbine school killings, many families still keep loaded guns in bedroom nightstands.

7.   Recent school killings have prompted calls for banning almost every potential weapon from flint knives to nuclear bombs.

8.   School killings are starting to feel like an annual ritual, said Christopher Sales, a Somers High senior.

9.   Shooting sprees, such as the school killings that have occurred in the United States, remain unheard of here.