There’s about 300 million Americans:
<http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html>

One in 100 Americans is in the military:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/military_of_the_united_states>

One in 100 Americans is in prison:
<http://www.gateway.net/pf/story.jsp?floc=ff-apo-1333&idq=/ff/story/0001%2f20080228%2f1416293107.htm&sc=1333>

One in four Americans is in school:
<http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/nptable?_bm=y&-qr_name=acs_2004_est_g00_np01&-geo_id=01000us&-ds_name>

And there are frequent, and often successful, movements to change schools so that students are:

- Required to attend school year-round
- Wear uniforms
- Submit to drug testing
- Submit to searches and metal detectors
- Have armed police officers on campus

They say it's a more dangerous world. But where is the danger coming from?

And is it going anywhere?

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