Dead Milkmen lyrics from 1985:

"There's a town in Georgia's got a law on the books Says if we all got guns then we won't have crooks Now what could make them think that way?"

and, on the same album:

"Violence rules, guns are cool and we've got guns, in our school"

The writing was on the wall. I was teaching at a small school in Arizona when Columbine happened. I probably did a face palm and kept teaching....