It's very easy to sit back and analyze in hindsight what this whacco wrote in school plays or the strange actions that he took, but it would be even more of a crime to start policing people based on their thoughts than their actions. Besides warning the students initially after the first shooting, there's not too much the university could have done. You never know when things like this are going to happen and when they do it's much easier to look back in time and say, "well now this answers that."
Regarding why this seems to be happening more and more, I don't have the numbers and I don't have the time to look this up (I should be studying for an exam right now), but why these shootings seem to be happening more and more to me stems from the fact that accountability has gone from something that used to define a person to something that can be blamed on others.
Whereas before if you did something wrong you were grounded for it or punished, today, if you say something or do something wrong the media or the parents or the kids act as if they have no responsibility over their actions and look to someone else to blame.
And this isn't just about kids doing bad in school and acting out on their parents, or a teacher punishing a kid in school and having the kid's parents go bersirk on the teachers, but it's the new "blame game" that's taking over this society. Let's not blame the shooter, but let's blame the video games, the movies, the authoritative figures, etc. Even this guy that just shot up the school, it's all about blaming the "rich kids" and whoever else he mentioned that caused him to do this. Please.
I honestly don't think these shootings occur because of a lack of gun laws or politics or feminism or today's entertainment or anything else. People all over the world watch American movies and eat McDonald's fries, but you don't see this kind of stuff happening as much as it happens in the U.S., and I don't even think it's about gun laws either. Face it, if someone really wants to kill someone they'll find a way to get a gun, one way or another.
The more acceptable it is to blame others for your own problems is the more these kinds of loners will go unnoticed, because everyone will be too concerned with who to blame for turning him into a loner than they will be concerned with what to actually do to help him.
I'm just rambling on and I don't know if what I just said makes sense but my main point is that people are less accountable today than they were 50 years ago, and if you're not worried about being held accountable then there's no problem with killing a bunch of people and then killing yourself as well.
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