(05-30-2022, 09:21 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Also, I've done the comparison in a previous thread. Canada has the same amount of mass shooting deaths per capita. If you look at the mass murder in Europe (as a whole, which rivals America), we end up in the same ballpark. I'd be curious to look and see if school shootings is exclusively an American problem, though. If so, what is creating that unique problem?

Texas. Salvador Ramos. Florida. Nikolas Cruz. Also, we don't know the full background on Ramos yet, however, with Cruz? His background is pretty clear where he was heading. As it is with most of these shooters if you actually pay attention and call out the behavior as it happens. 

He had reported behavioral issues since middle school, he made threats to multiple students over the years, and he was bounced from school to school to the tune of six times within three years as a very lame attempt to deal with the problem rather than address it. He was on the verge of being Baker Acted. Two schools said he should have been Baker Acted. The actual Mental Institution did not. 

Again, there was tons of warning signs on this kid. Just like there's going to be tons of warning signs ultimately shed to light about Ramos. 9 times out of 10 it comes from a broken home, a missing authority figure in the child's life, something along the lines of someone dying, in Cruz's case with Parkland, his mother died and he spiraled out of control from there, and it results in a lot of failed accountability. 

I think when you factor in the age of Social Media, Ultra Violent videogames with hyper realistic graphics and real world scenarios, having access to violent snuff films, hate forums for predators or like minded Psychopaths on the verge of frenzy, and pornography at the most extreme levels of the most grotesque nature all at the tips of your damn fingers on a cell phone?

Yeah, sounds like we need to be paying more attention to our children. Sounds like we need to take early signs more serious than a heart attack when a child exhibits extreme anger, violence, self harm, manifesto like writings and a knack for wanting to hurt others intentionally. We spend a lot of money as a country on some of these programs that are supposed to be in place to protect, address, evaluate and rehabilitate children and people in these circumstances. Yet, we're seeing time after time after time that the system either fails, based on the checks and balances put into place, or, they simply lose them within the system.

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