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Eric woods, school board trustee. in this day and age it's important that we treat safety issues as a very high priority for our schools. two problems. i understand the school recoiling. i get it. >> especially where so many people can see it. >> sure. however, schools don't get to decide on supreme court matters, actually. the right to bear arms is enshrined in the constitution. the supreme court has ruled on this twice in the last five years. the federal government has ruled on it, too, and congress. so this school doesn't have the right to make laws. schools don't get to do that. the second...

Things, there's no control. after this many incidents, we're not controlling anything. we need to have a conversation about gun safety because i can't imagine there's a person in this country who doesn't -- isn't for gun safety. and as we have that conversation to the point you were making, that means what are the laws and the regulations that determine who gets a gun, who has access to a gun, but also in terms of the mental health issues that will come out of this and how do we ensure that we have the proper systems in place to ensure that people who have mental illness don't have access to g...

Staff because his mother is a teacher. >> exactly. when i worked at the new york city schools after 9/11, we needed to take a very wholistic approach to this as we move forward and think of the needs of the children, this community, the teachers. this is going to be a long process of healing. there will be all kinds of great resources for people in terms of how do you talk with your children, how you move forward, how you answer their questions. certainly the school district will have to look for additional resources. joan and i were just talking about this. i hope nobody says that the school ...

Than e-mail and facebook. there are ways to contribute. luke, i know you have a student with a question on this. >> that's right. i'm here with tiara. she's from the bronx. she has an interesting question and comment about technology in school. >> well, mostly a statement. basically, when i was in high school i was going to a technology-based high school, but when i got there, there were no type of technology whatsoever. so basically, i felt that i wasn't getting that help that i could have used. but touriduring my senior year, finally got computers, but then after that, i felt i could have di...

and so it's with great respect that i speak of him and proud to say that i worked for him. >> it's been a seismic cascade of events since last weekend's arrest of a former penn state defensive coordinator on charges of raping and molesting a number of other boys. two of the university officials are charged with failure to report those crimes. paterno is charged with nothing, but says he wishes that he had done more than simply tell his superiors what an assistant reported to him back in 2002. i want to go now to penn state campus and cnn's jason carroll. jason, we know it was a prett...