So…story time. Woo. 
Over Christmas break my high school was the subject of these two boy’s plans of destruction. The whole Columbine jalopy. Then, today being Friday the 13th, and a full moon, there were rumors about pipe bombs, and shootings. Regardless that the Columbine emulators are still in custody, people flipped out. So, there was increased security, (I actually applaud the staff at my school for reacting on the rumor in the way that they did,) and a serious lack of students.
Then, at lunch someone set off a firework in a trashcan resulting in a bomb-like sound which caused all of the students to further flip out. And during the stampede of students rushing to safety, I noticed that it’s somehow different being inside of these incidents. I mean, if I’d heard about this incident happening at a different school I would have thought to myself, “That sucks,” and then thought nothing of it. But today, I was really thinking about it. Nothing happened. Just a few fireworks and some displaced trash, but there was something puzzling me for a long time: These two boys have installed a fear in my school that will surface again on Valentine’s Day (the day they planned to blow up my school,) 4-20, and graduation day, so here’s my question:
Among all of the anthrax, guns, bullets, a-bombs, pipe bombs, bows and arrows, small pox, bird flu, sars, and other commonly threatening weapons of mass destruction, there lies fear. So, would it be correct to say that the most powerful weapon a person or nation could harness as an element of war, or mental destruction is fear?
Well, yes. See MAD, etc.