Putting away the guns is not the subject. It's going nowhere, okay?

With respect, wtf?

This is not about mental health or backpacks or gun models or immigration or bad parenting to hoodies or the mascot on the high school team. This is about guns. Without mental illness, would so many be dead? Likely there's enough rage and pain inside an individual like that to raze the world. Would so many be dead if everyone was armed with bulletproof backpacks; as the scenario payed out? Probably.

Would so many children and the adult who worked with them be dead had the killer not been armed with a firearm? You can bet on it.

People throw around terms like mental health and background checks and screening tests as if they offer some definitions to these words. "Mental health" is everything from active psychosis to general anxiety; paranoid schizophrenia and sex addiction. Which "mental patients" are you going to exclude from having guns in a country where the very argument is everyone gets a gun?

And how do you screen everyone in this age of HIPAA?

Research has found 41% of assailants in school shooting were considered to be mainstream students, although only 12% had few very close friends. According to the report, the majority of perpetrators showed no significant change in academic performance (56%), friendship patterns (73%), interest in school (59%), or school disciplinary problems (68%) prior to the violent attack (Lee, 2013). Moreover, Vossekuil et al. (2002) reported that 99% of school shootings were carried out by young males. In the majority of school shootings that have taken place, the school shooter carried out the attack alone (U.S. Department of Justice, 2013), and 63% of the students committing violent acts showed interest in violence in movies, video games, or books (Lee, 2013). Vossekuil et al. (2002) reported that only one-third of attackers (34%) ever received a mental health evaluation and less than one-fifth (17%) were diagnosed with a mental disorder, although 78% of school shooters had a history of suicide attempts or suicidal ideations prior to their attack. Further, Lee (2013) also indicated that many of the attackers (61%) demonstrated a history of suicidal attempts, as well as had a documented history of experiencing symptoms of extreme depression or desperation, prior to an attack.

There are ways to do more than pay lip service to mental health treatment and prevention, but we'd have to get serious, spend money and actually try to understand people rather than simply punishing them and right now, no one 's interested.

And no, not that it needs to be said, but ADHD has nothing to do with any of this.


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/
Vistas Online: School Shootings and Student Mental Health: Role of the School Counselor in Mitigating Violence
Allison Paolini

In a way yes. We need to stop coddling the left.

So what mental health services would be available to the shooter in the state of Texas?

back to lockdown fewer shootings. Shooting put schools into lockdown. Maybe kids just want to stay home?

don't see alot of mass archeryings

Well , I don't think anyone will agree to any common solution.

Guns can't be stopped in US, but they could atleast make it really hard to get one like a green card.

Yes we need more guns in schools. 🙄 You are so frigging erratic I expect that you are actually a troll.

@Changeisgonnacome And what do you expect will change when you can't think outside your little box?

throwing knives are more skilled also

No going there!

You're exactly right. These people managed to sneak under the radar with severe enough mental problems that they tried to solve them by shooting a bunch of other people.