When Jamie and I arrived at Fountain-Fort Carson High School in Colorado Springs, CO, the mood was electric.

WHITEHOUSE: Joining Forces Blog

Pilot projects on the Edmonton model have already been launched by school boards in Colorado Springs, Oakland and New York City.

ECONOMIST: It's not just the economy that is booming; schools are too

Elementary students in the Douglas County school district between Denver and Colorado Springs check out wireless-enabled notebook computers from a central depository and take them to gym class.

CNN: Students augment in-class education with wireless Web

The media rarely mention the mass murders that were thwarted by armed citizens at the Shoney's Restaurant in Anniston, Ala. (1991), the high school in Pearl, Miss. (1997), the middle-school dance in Edinboro, Penn. (1998), and the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo. (2007), among others.

WSJ: David Kopel: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown