Originally Posted by
bkb0000
out of the thousands upon thousands of kids that scribble out morbid shit on a piece of paper, how many are going to someday shoot the place up? should be suspend/put in counselling/prosecute/**** up the life of these thousands upon thousands that scribble out something morbid on a piece of paper, for sake of the statistical-one that might be a problem, someday?
the problem is that we have millions of people who get their news from a small handful of sources who all report on the same infinitesimally small number of problems in our society. the solution is to look at the actual statistics with these things- and the statistics show that schools today are actually substantially safer, kinder, and less violent places overall than they were during our parents' generation.
mass shootings are a new thing- but they're literally one-in-many-millions situations.... YOU CANT ADDRESS THAT! it's like trying to prevent the lottery from being won. but once again, we chose ignorant fear over reason. we'd rather everyone suffer, so we can feel like we're doing something.