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It seems like the school-shooting epidemic of the last 20 years or so can be traced back to Columbine. Every school shooter since then has been heavily, and I mean HEAVILY influenced by the columbine shooting. Everyone of them seem like wannabe Eric & Dylan. How could we possibly stop this domino effect?
A much stronger focus on adolescent mental health and awareness of the warning signs of dangerous behaviour amongst teachers and parents.
"Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic" - PBS 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality
Because the media portrayed a psychopathic egomaniac and his lackey as bullied teens....causing a chain reaction consisting of dipshits martyring them.
Well obviously banning guns would help the most. Talking about how to stop school shootings when you're against banning guns (even against putting limits on guns) is just paying lip service.
That's like saying "Talking about how to stop drunk driving when you're against banning cars (even putting limits on cars) is just paying lip service."
To many people they are. Who are you to decide what is necessary to whom?
People only feel like they need to have guns because they're so easily obtainable in the first place. If they were banned, then eventually no one would be able to easily obtain them anymore and people wouldn't feel like they need guns anymore. This argument in support of guns is just a band-aid solution, it makes the problem worse in the long run.
Tell that to the many people whose lives have been saved by guns.
There will always be guns and the thought of only the government & criminals owning them should scare the crap out any sane person.
And consider the following story of a home invasion:
"19 yr old Solorzano began attacking the 73yr old man, pushing him into the home and hitting him with a blunt object. Police report Solorzano put the man into a chokehold causing him to lose consciousness.
The man’s fiancee’ told police she woke up during the fight and asked Solorzano to stop attacking, but he ignored her. According to GCSO, she got a handgun from the bedroom and fired a warning shot out the patio door, but Solorzano continued to attack the man."
"The warning shot did nothing to stop the attack, and the woman knew she needed to take a more direct approach to stop Solorzano from continuing.
She fired one more shot, hitting Solorzano in the head."
Yes, guns are necessary.
Stop forcing kids to go to school after 5th or 8th grade (let it be their choice after that) That should bring it down a good percentage since most school shootings happen in high school by other high schoolers, it's not like they learn anything that they would use in their daily life after that anyway. I don't remember a damn thing they taught us in high school.
The perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, arguably the worst of all time because it killed so many small children, notably thought Eric was a sociopathic piece of shit and that Dylan was a spineless loser doing whatever Eric said because he couldn't land any normal friends (all this, actually a fairly accurate assessment).
Why would he go do something even worse? Well he became mentally ill and felt life was a torture people only endured because biological processes had engrained fear of death in people. While he felt Eric only wanted to cause pain, he presumably thought he was freeing children from the pain of learning how shitty life eventually got.
Like an increasing number of shooters, he essentially left "fuck you" LOL notes to conservatives regarding how easy it was to acquire guns and the fact that as a painfully awkward young man on the spectrum it was utterly ridiculous to imagine him having acquired them illegally.
Still, you're right. For the most part many of them idealize Eric and Dylan, or at least study them to improve their own methods much as serial killers do regarding other serial killers.