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Reportings on these shootings are just mandatory at this point.
Nothing is going to change.
It's just a matter of time until the next one happens.
This cant be reiterated enough. Doesn't matter what gun bans we put in place; its just a matter of time when the next mass shooting happens. We simply can not get rid of all the mentally disturbed people in this world.
Most of the teen/ young adult shooters are somewhere on the Schizophrenic spectrum, a biological condition. There is no cure. It’s not a matter of teaching kids how to deal with problems.
Most of these shooters have a history of emotional instability. It impacts males far more than females. Nearly impossible to diagnose serious mental illness in early stages given immature cognition and emotional immaturity.
Then they should either be medicated and observed 24/7 if they are going to live amongst us or put into a facility.
And why is it more prevalent now ? We are we seeing these things increasing ? Are we dealing with and epidemic of Schizophrenia ?
And I'm going disagree on the "most of" part. Some, not most.
Is that true? 1966, for example, had 4 school shootings, including the one at the University of Texas that killed 17 and injured 31. 1998, exactly 20 years ago, had 6 school shootings.
They are certainly more frequent now and more deadly now too. Modern firearms are more efficient and the offenders tend to have multiple guns and more bullets.
Modern firearms are more efficient ? That doesn't even make sense. Not much has changed in the AR15 , for instance since the 60's when it was first available.
This cant be reiterated enough. Doesn't matter what gun bans we put in place; its just a matter of time when the next mass shooting happens. We simply can not get rid of all the mentally disturbed people in this world.
The US does NOT have a higher rate of mental illness than England or France or Spain or any country in Europe where school shootings are not anywhere near as common as here. What the US DOES have is a much higher rate of gun ownership. Get rid of the guns!
So just like in Parkland, there was a fire drill right before the shooting.
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"So, it was just a normal-like class day. We all were doing our work in first period. And then all of a sudden like it's a fire drill," 14-year-old junior Angelica Martinez said.
So we followed the fire drill procedures. And then we went outside. Like we were all standing there, but not even five minutes later, we all start hearing gunshots."
The US does NOT have a higher rate of mental illness than England or France or Spain or any country in Europe where school shootings are not anywhere near as common as here. What the US DOES have is a much higher rate of gun ownership. Get rid of the guns!
Thats as ignorant as saying get rid of drugs/opioids so people will stop dying from overdose.
So, why wasn't it more prevalent when our laws were really lax ? You are aware that in the '70's one could order a semi auto rifle right out of the Sears catalog and have it shipped to your house. Why weren't there school shootings on a weekly basis then ? Not to mention those in rural areas that had shotguns and rifles in gun racks right in their trucks ? Saw this all the time in the 80's in KS.
Society was pretty good back then.
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