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Just curious. What objective criteria does one have to meet to be considered a major school shooting instead of just a school shooting? There's been at least one school shooting every year since 1966.
Just curious. What objective criteria does one have to meet to be considered a major school shooting instead of just a school shooting? There's been at least one school shooting every year since 1966.
Yeah, and this year alone there have been at least one a week (using the criteria of anyone getting shot in a school, be it revenge against one person, gang violence, or mass shooting).
It is a very good article. I only posted a few paragraphs. I think this explains what’s happening very well.
It is an excellent article that I have linked to before, after other mass shootings. I think that it is a viable theory. The 'threshold' has been reached for more and more people to pick up a gun and commit mass murder.
Crazies use social media to revere and celebrate the birthdays of the Columbine shooters.
The Texas school shooter had a history of wearing a long trench coat and boots to school, just like the Columbine shooters, and did so despite heat and humidity. He was not alive when Columbine went down.
It is an excellent article that I have linked to before, after other mass shootings. I think that it is a viable theory. The 'threshold' has been reached for more and more people to pick up a gun and commit mass murder.
Yes, I agree. That’s why I want people to demand metal detectors in schools, despite the costs. This is not going to stop, and no amount of gun laws are going to protect these kids. It’s now up to the schools to acknowledge they are just another government building that needs metal detectors, and figure out a way to come up with funding. Maybe after a few years it will die down and they can relax the rules, but right now we are at a threshold. There have been 22 school shootings this year. That’s just incredible that no one is insisting on metal detectors, and there is so much resistance. It took two or three judges killed inside courtrooms and there were metal detectors in nearly all of them. Why is there resistance?
The media needs to stop making the shooters famous by broadcasting their names, faces, motives etc etc..
We might actually be seeing a type of copycat scenario going on. Terrorists do the same thing.
Teens all over the world have angst and problems fitting in with their peers. Teens all over the world have issues figuring out their place in the world and what their future might hold.
The difference with America V. the rest of the world is that we have done a lousy job of raising our kids. For many years we have hoisted the kids up in an artificial bubble that they are special and will always win. Kids have been fed this false narrative by feel good parents and school administrators that don't want kids to get upset so they made everyone a winner. What a crazy notion to not keep score in a sporting game. My niece goes to a school that doesn't have grades on report cards. They dropped the A-F letters in favor of a Satisfactory scale. Where is the incentive when trying to study to raise a C to a B when the report card will read Satisfactory?
We have too many kids that have been mollycoddled, told they are winners and or drugged up to keep them in line.
Well when they get old enough to realize that they are not unique, special and actually that in real life there are winners and losers their entire inflated self worth collapses. Some can handle this big let down and some cannot. Some cry, some turn to drugs or hurting themselves while some turn to hurting others and some pick up guns to murder.
They could take away the guns but we are still going to have terrible scenes where bombs, knives, and trucks are used to kill.
Stop glorifying the terrible carnage from these scenes.
The public has an insatiable demand for all the gory details. The cable news outlets deliver what their viewers want to see.
Crazies use social media to revere and celebrate the birthdays of the Columbine shooters.
The Texas school shooter had a history of wearing a long trench coat and boots to school, just like the Columbine shooters, and did so despite heat and humidity. He was not alive when Columbine went down.
That is sick. I would love for some hackers to put some major viruses in all those websites dedicated to this stuff. Make it hard for these kids to feed their obsession.
The media needs to stop making the shooters famous by broadcasting their names, faces, motives etc etc..
We might actually be seeing a type of copycat scenario going on. Terrorists do the same thing.
Teens all over the world have angst and problems fitting in with their peers. Teens all over the world have issues figuring out their place in the world and what their future might hold.
The difference with America V. the rest of the world is that we have done a lousy job of raising our kids. For many years we have hoisted the kids up in an artificial bubble that they are special and will always win. Kids have been fed this false narrative by feel good parents and school administrators that don't want kids to get upset so they made everyone a winner. What a crazy notion to not keep score in a sporting game. My niece goes to a school that doesn't have grades on report cards. They dropped the A-F letters in favor of a Satisfactory scale. Where is the incentive when trying to study to raise a C to a B when the report card will read Satisfactory?
We have too many kids that have been mollycoddled, told they are winners and or drugged up to keep them in line.
Well when they get old enough to realize that they are not unique, special and actually that in real life there are winners and losers their entire inflated self worth collapses. Some can handle this big let down and some cannot. Some cry, some turn to drugs or hurting themselves while some turn to hurting others and some pick up guns to murder.
They could take away the guns but we are still going to have terrible scenes where bombs, knives, and trucks are used to kill.
Stop glorifying the terrible carnage from these scenes.
Media gives us what sells. WE, the consumers have to set the tone.
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