Virginia Tech shooting

[Crazed Rabbit]

That's good to hear, Ser Clegane.

The blame for incidents like this pretty much has to fall on some combination including one or more of those factors, n'est-ce pas?

I tend to blame the shooter; he who is responsible for this, he who pulled the triggers.

Now, I think society could help by looking for desperate individuals and trying to help them.

But the greatest (in number of dead) attack upon a school in the US involved, firearm wise, only one rifle bullet. Also, consider that back in the 1950s kids could bring their guns to school for rifle team or hunting after school - there were many more guns in schools, and it wasn't until the gun free zone was passed (early 1990s I believe) that school shootings really took off.

Crazed Rabbit

[Husar]

Now, I think society could help by looking for desperate individuals and trying to help them.

I think CR deserves a cookie, making this a gun debate is pretty pointless, we have had school shootings here in Europe even though guns are banned here.

The problem is that students are desperate because they have noone to help them ease their problems, rather there are a lot of people who enjoy putting more weight onto their poor souls, not realizing how destructive they really are.
IMO this has to do with a lack of morals. Older people were always taught to treat others with respect etc, but nowadays morals and respect are constantly vanishing among young kids, they don't even respect the weaker teachers anymore, they're sometimes like carnivores who will bully against everybody who is weaker. a school shooting is like the counterstrike of the weaker people. I just hope I will be able to raise my kids with some morals and a strong mind once I have some and if anyone bullies them I am going to open the gates of my personal hell and bring down whatever is inside upon the ones responsible(I don't really have an idea what that means, but I'm not going to tolerate it, also not if my own kids should start bullying others)

Let me repeat, I was thinking of doing something like this myself many years ago...