I love school shootings because they are the clearest reflection available that something is seriously wrong with our model of society, for both the actual event itself and the subsequent discussion by the media afterwards.
We don't have (many) guns in the UK but that doesn't stop children stabbing each other all the time. Whilst we have no school shootings, the individuals who may have done such a thing instead implode in silence and out of sight, causing suffering to themselves and others in different ways. The underlying problem is still there, it just manifests differently. Lives might not end instantly in such brutality, the suffering may be more diffuse, but it is still there.
The media just loves talking about guns and demonising the child as 'evil', overlooking the fact that society made both of them. But no. Blame guns. Blame video games. Blame the child who was betrayed by those who should have helped. Ironically, taking away guns and violent video games would solve nothing, all it would do is satisfy the desires of dull people to not have the faults of society impact their lives and allow them to go on pretending nothing is wrong. Basically they want 'out of sight, out of mind', don't interrupt my trip.. and the government would also get to neuter the public of weaponry that could be used to resist tyranny.
Discussion should be on why the child was failed, on causative factors that need addressing e.g. legal and illegal mind affecting substances.
