We had lots of guns on school grounds when I was in high school. My single shot .410 rode in the back window on a rack in the school parking lot.
The school security guard would talk guns with you.
We would go hunting after school, so we had to have them with us at school.
There were mental issues with people in my era, and before it. Nobody in their right mind can do a mass shooting and be perfectly sane, so what has changed to make these social deviants want to commit mass murder, and target defensless school children?
Is it the desire to become infamous? We are all connected to the rest of the world through the internet now, and everybody see's everything thats going on in the world around us.
Back in the day, a school shooting may have made the second page of a newspaper a couple of days after it happened after all the facts had been gathered, and a logical conclusion had been made about who and why the shooting occured.
Shooting have to be broken down into two catagories. Shooters that are students, and shooters not in the school system.
Shooters that are students, seem to be the ones that just don't "fit it" for whatever reason, and are made fun of, or are bullied. Recent example is Dillon and Clebow in the Colorado shootings. (I have a lot of negative comments about how that one was handled)
Kids have been bullied for centuries in schools for what-ever reason. Not every kid that is bullied becomes a mass murderer. What makes one of them snap?
Shooters that are outside of the student population can be a parent that is disgruntled with a school decision, or just a random shooter that wants to leave this earth with a history that nobody will forget. Why they choose innocent children, I can't fathom.
Doing a little research before posting this, I found that school shootings have been going on since the 1760's.
(U.S. Population: Less Than 4M)
The earliest known
United States shooting to happen on school property was the
Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on
July 26, 1764, where four
Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day
Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only three children survived.
What I'll leave with you is a link that shows school shootings in the U.S.. Its nothing new, Its been happening for a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
What do we do to stop this?
I'm no expert in human psychie, but my redneck thinking is that most of the school shooting from outsiders ended up when the shooter was confronted by armed people, and then committed suicide in a cowardly fashion because they weren't man enough to confront another armed person.
May their souls rest in hell forever.....
