Senseless Act

You are preaching to the choir about parents being involved in their children's lives. Something that is very rare these days.
Most people take their kids to a counselor to raise their kids rather than act like f****** parents.
But I will tell you something that is even more disturbing about these shootings than bad parenting.
Up until about the last 20 years or so the news wouldn't report on celebrity suicide. They did this because it would cause impressionable people to copycat. It's actually a huge thing.
You can read it on Wikipedia about copycat suicide. There's all kinds of terminology about it and s*** because it is so commonplace.
So if that holds true for suicide than it stands to reason it would hold true for school shootings as well.
Think about it. After Columbine school shootings took off like a wildfire.
The media is well aware, or at least used to be, the impact on society that the news stories held. They knew about this suicide phenomenon and wouldn't report on it because of it.
So school shootings go deeper than acquiring a weapon and mental health.

Yeah it can start at home. But from my experience people go bad when their life is shit and that very much can be abuse at home, school or work. So they turn to alcohol, drugs or violence as a way to stop it. There used to be an old saying about always being nice to the janitor of a place because they literally have to deal with people's shit everyday so they could snap from all the abuse. So these people have had their mental health ignored, been abused or even indoctrinated and brainwashed to the point they eventually go off the deep end.
If they are just natural born psychopaths that falls under mental health.
If it is extremism that falls under mental health and indoctrination and even abuse.
If it is bullying, being physically or sexually assaulted at school, work or home that is abuse.
As far as I have seen, drugs, alcohol and violence all come from these three things. Mental illness, abuse or brainwashing/indoctrination.

So true. It’s a sad state the world has become. There are so many laws in place but not being enforced. No one should ever target children period. So sad and my heart breaks