St. Louis School Shooter - Another "lonely" young male taking it out on society
So yesterday a 19 year old walked in to a school he used to attend and started shooting. Two killed and seven wounded. The shooter, Orlando Harris, was killed by the police. He used an AR-15 and had over 600 rounds of ammunition.
Today they released portion of a note he left in his car. It listed other school shooters in the U.S. and the number of people they'd killed. He said he wanted to be the next name on the list.
He also said, “I don’t have any friends, I don’t have any family. I’ve been an isolated loner my whole life. This was a perfect storm for a mass shooting."
The knee-jerk reaction is "mental health issues." Well, yeah. Clearly. Randomly killing people isn't exactly a solid mental health platform. But maybe it's not something than can be diagnosed. Maybe we're creating these people with social media as the main ingredient.
Bill Maher is hit and miss for most everyone but this commentary, which has to include the little jokes but probably shouldn't, examines the role of loneliness and frustration and how it's been created/exasperated by social media. Lot of truth there.
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Today they released portion of a note he left in his car. It listed other school shooters in the U.S. and the number of people they'd killed. He said he wanted to be the next name on the list.
He also said, “I don’t have any friends, I don’t have any family. I’ve been an isolated loner my whole life. This was a perfect storm for a mass shooting."
The knee-jerk reaction is "mental health issues." Well, yeah. Clearly. Randomly killing people isn't exactly a solid mental health platform. But maybe it's not something than can be diagnosed. Maybe we're creating these people with social media as the main ingredient.
Bill Maher is hit and miss for most everyone but this commentary, which has to include the little jokes but probably shouldn't, examines the role of loneliness and frustration and how it's been created/exasperated by social media. Lot of truth there.
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