I sure hope that the lady receive some kind of recognition for her action.

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>I think whatever we do there will always be some drug use within society.
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>There are a number of sociological reasons why we have a drug problem. I would not suggest this is the total reason for the problem but it does hit all groups in one way or another. I think the most common denominator is broken homes. Define why there are so many single parent homes in America. There are several basic reasons and exceptions to every rule. You could also say that such thoughts are just rationalizations and this too has truth to it. It is easy to look at statistics and not realize that humans are involved. It is too easy to look for failure.
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>I grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in San Francisco. We now live in the suburbs of Sunnyvale, near San Jose. You cannot tell where San Jose ends and Sunnyvale begins unless you see the sign on the street or freeway. Recently, I told my wife when I was a child I knew 64 families in my neighborhood and we talked to each other. We knew everyone by first and last name. Everybody new everybody’s business – you get the picture. Now, in Sunnyvale, I do not know any of my neighbors by name and two of them say hello – sometimes but not always.
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>Yesterday we had an event here in Silicon Valley, in Cupertino, which is the next community, a bit North West from us. At De Anza College (my son just graduated in December) the police closed down the school yesterday. 28,000 students were sent home and not allowed to get his/her cars from the parking lot. It seems that one of the students had built many bombs and had a large number of weapons. He had written a diary for the last two years and described how “we” were going to kill students at De Anza. The selected time was 1230 yesterday during lunch and he had a plan of the cafeteria and the place were snipers would be stationed so when the bombs went off the snipers would shoot the fleeing students.
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>The student had taken many pictures of himself with his bombs and weapons and went to have them developed. A young woman at the store saw the pictures and it so happened her father is a policeman.
>She called her father and police were called to the store and at that time the student was in the process of picking up his pictures. He was arrested and his parent’s house searched. The parents, brother and sister had no idea that the 19-year-olds bedroom was full of bombs, weapons and ammunition. The parents said they “respected their sons privacy”. The young man had written a letter saying he was sorry for what he was about to do. He also made a tape recording apologizing to his friends and parents. There was no explanation why he intended to kill students.
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>The media interviewed the neighbors who said they only said hello - sometimes – to each other but did not know each other. Part of the problem with society has to lie with the parents not being involved with their children, and people not knowing or caring about his/her neighbors.
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>I am so glad the young lady called her father and the police intervened. Otherwise, I am sure the headlines would be very different today.