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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, a woman waits at a staging ground area where families are being reunited with Berrendo Middle School students after a shooting at the school in Roswell, N.M. Although still relatively rare, there?s been no real reduction in the number of school shootings since security was beefed up around the country with measures such as safety drills and the hiring of police officers, after the rampage at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2013 file photo, students comfort each other outside of Arapahoe High School after a shooting on the campus in Centennial, Colo. Although still relatively rare, there’s been no real reduction in the number of school shootings since security was beefed up around the country with measures such as safety drills and the hiring of police officers, after the rampage at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2012 file photo, shop owner Tamara Doherty paces outside her store just down the road from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Although still relatively rare, there’s been no real reduction in the number of school shootings since security was beefed up around the country with measures such as safety drills and the hiring of police officers. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - In this October 21, 2013 file photo, a Sparks Middle School student is comforted as he cries after being released from Agnes Risley Elementary School, where some students were evacuated to after a shooting, in Sparks, Nev. Although still relatively rare, there’s been no real reduction in the number of school shootings since security was beefed up around the country with measures such as safety drills and the hiring of police officers, after the rampage at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford, File)
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** FILE ** This Jan. 12, 1993, file photo shows director Woody Allen trading grins with a pursuing television reporter as he arrives at State Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York, for a hearing in which he requested more liberal visitation rights with his children during his ongoing dispute with ex-lover actress Mia Farrow. Dylan Farrow renewed molestation allegations against Allen, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, claiming the movie director sexually assaulted her when she was 7 after he and actress Mia Farrow adopted her. (AP Photo/Mario Cabrera, File)
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Kansas' Naadir Tharpe (10) looks to pass around Texas' Cameron Ridley (55) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Texas won 81-69. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Kansas' Perry Ellis (34) shoots as Texas' Prince Ibeh (44) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Texas won 81-69. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 photo, Tanveer Mirza stands in the FAITH Social Services offices in Herndon, Va. Mirza emigrated from Pakistan 37 years earlier. In 1999 her mosque started this effort to assist refugees from the civil war in Bosnia who were being resettled in Northern Virginia. They soon realized that, even amid relative wealth, there were many who needed assistance, including many non-Muslims. "You don’t think there are people in need, but there are a lot of them," says Mirza, the organization’s president. "You don't see them." (AP Photo/Adam Geller)