So The Uvalde shooter, Salvador Ramos, was bullied in school.

I don't buy that. Plenty of kids get bullied and they don't go on a shooting spree.

I think that’s why we need to focus on the root causes of violence

Gun control would help and I'm not against it, that some unstable person can’t just grab a semi auto rifle on a whim, but it wont eliminate the violence going on in the united states
The guns aren’t causing people to become violent

Personal possession of firearms is still legal in a lot of countries
But they don’t have the degree of violence like the unites states

I doubt it would even be possible for the government to get control of all the weapons floating around in the US

And even if they could, There’s other ways to kill lots people, get a car and run a bunch of people over, build a makeshift bomb, stab a bunch of people

Honestly I think a big step in the right direction is just to be more compassionate to others
If a kid isn’t fitting in or talking to anyone, just take the time to talk to him or her and try to include them
Instead of just mocking them or calling them a creep or whatever
Or just don't be so judgemental of people and be willing to listen to their views
Just some examples I could think of

It’s always easy to just sit back and demand the government fix everything that’s wrong with society
But I think we can do a lot to change things
I have to work on being more compassionate myself and taking more time for other people
So I get it
Anyway
Long winded but just some my thoughts on this

just how poor was he?. hed just recently purchased a truck and 2x rifles + enough ammo to take on NK...

more ca$h than i have and i work 40hrs a week.

Questions need answering from law enforment!..

Makes a good story, but who knows. I recently saw a short article about the Columbine shooters, who at the time were widely referred to as "bullied" in the media, but supposedly were later found to be bullies themselves. Who knows?

I was a very small child, and I was bullied mercilessly. It never occurred to me as a teen to go to an elementary school and retaliate against 4th graders. There is no excuse for this because he was bullied. I grew up with a number of kids who had been bullied, had abusive or drug or alcohol addicted parents, none of us shot up a school or church. Because someone had a bad or tough childhood, that isn't a reason to mitigate what they themselves do.

Lots of kids get bullied which is sad, but that's no excuse to get trigger happy

Being poor or being bullied is no excuse.

He wasn’t bullied by the kids he killed .

According to a live interview I saw with a person who knew him in school that's not true..
He said that the kid wasn't bullied at all and that those reports were wrong.
He said the guy was himself a kind of bully who hurt animals.. but he wasn't bullied by anyone

Having read your comments to other people, Penny, I would like to mention something you haven't considered.

There is brand new research out there that points directly to the new stronger WEED, which has such high levels of THC that it has been shown to twist the still forming brains of teenagers into psychosis or schizophrenia.

This murderer loved to smoke weed. He told one of his online buddies that he hated both his mother and his grandmother because they did NOT want him to smoke weed.

His mother was a drug addict. BOTH parents were absent from his life. His grandfather was a criminal who had served time.

I would just like to gently suggest that in addition to the psychotic effects of hyper strong THC, the genetics of this family were flawed to begin with. If you have "tendencies" running in the family, and then you are socked with an environment of neglect.

People weren't mean to this kid for no reason. His behaviors were always off-putting, strange, and even scary...like when he began to cut his own face and told people that it felt good.

This kid HAD a job at one time...and didn't keep it. He was poor because he was spending his money on weed.

Bullying is never a good enough reason to take a gun and enough ammunition to kill everyone in the school . It was senseless . Some say he was bullied for being poor I don’t think he was very poor if he could buy all that stuff . I don’t know and we will never know why he did this but the blame is on him in my opinion. In schools today we teach the kids are never wrong ( they just see things differently) .

There’s apparently much more to this shooting than we’re being told. And very likely we’ll never know.

I want to know where an unemployed person his age got all the money for what he had with him

Sorry but i have to call bullshit on your comment. There is no excuse for what he did. Lots are bullied...but they don't blow the faces off of children. Standing up for what he did...trying to justify it is ridiculous and completely uncaring for those kids and their families.

@Penny You are jumping to conclusions about what I think. What I said is we don’t know all the facts. Very likely we never will. Saying that does not mean I think he was put up to it.
You ask why he would do that? We’ll see how long before or if that question can be answered for certain.

plenty ppl been bullied over the decades. and guns have been available the whole time..
why hasnt there been school shootings for 100 years. instead of around the time Obumbles became president?.

He abused animals. He was a sick fuk

Wasn't everyone bullied at one time or another? When I was little, the bigger girls picked on us, so we just avoided them whenever possible. I don't understand the reasoning behind retaliating against innocent victims sometimes years after the fact. These people are mentally ill, and if they can't get a gun, they will resort to bombs, poisons , or some other diabolical scheme!

There’s no stopping bullying unfortunately. Kids will be kids. Even if you’re lucky enough to attend a school with the highest security, those bullies will find you outside of it.

He was 18, if he shot up his own highschool, I could kind of understand where he was coming from. But to shoot a bunch of 7-10 year olds who never did him harm...

Maybe his act was a cry for help that can show us that starting in elementary school, people need to watch out for others getting bullied.

Millions of children are bullied and poor, they do not do mass shootings

Plenty of people are bullied, sometimes sadistically, and don't kill anyone. It was unfortunate that it happened, but that is not a justification.

@PennyOne item: why is the Uvalde P.D. not cooperating in the investigation?
That is not speculation. That was widely reported.
As for the article, I wasn’t specifically referring to it and their report of Ramos being bullied. My comment was/is general. Again, I re- iterate and it’s my feeling there is much more we don’t know and probably won’t get to know.

Bullying may have been a contributing factor.
We can't say that it was the cause.
The shooter had a history of being,... unbalanced.
There were lot's of red flags.
Bleeding heart liberal regulations prevented them from being reported.
He was a whack-a-doodle and should have been confined while being evaluated.
Not doing so is what cost those babies their lives.

I mean being bullied sucks. But the only way I can see this having any impact at all is that he lived in a country where mental health services are a privilege for the well off.

But it is the toxic right wing gun culture that teaches people like this they can solve the problem with a hail of bullets.

I think he cut cat whiskers too 🙀

All the more reason to sell AR-15s to children.

Bullying ppl for something they can't control...those bullies are even more heinous than other bullies...

Nobody is going to feel sorry for him because he was bullied. Him killing others loved ones does not justify what he did.

Ofcourse, the article will say that...its CNN article

everyone knows this is a particularly cruel nation