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Uvalde Shooter

I've read so many false premises I figured I would fill in the knowledge gaps with what I have learned about Salvador Ramos, age 18, murderer of 19 children and 2 teachers. I learned all this from listening to the news.

His mother is a drug addict. She is still alive, and lives in a second house owned by the grandmother, who is trying to evict her for non payment of rent.

His father is completely absent. No one knows where he is.

Abandoned by both parents, he was being raised by his grandmother and still lived with her. He was no longer in school.

He was deeply, deeply troubled, and people who knew him described him as a loner, which is a warning sign in troubled kids. People who tried to befriend him quickly unfriended him because he would say shocking things and was so "out there". He was known to cut himself. He cut up his own FACE and told people it was for fun.

His grandmother is still alive and in serious condition, and if she survives she will be able to provide more information about WHY he started shooting.

The fact that Salvador was age 18 and was no longer in school would have made it almost impossible to commit him for treatment under any existing red flag law for students.
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
One thing that I have yet to see publicized is the toxicology report to show what drugs mass shooters had taken. Considering what else may have been going on in his and other mass shooters' lives, it would be easy to assume that the kids were also doing drugs.

By narrowing he information released to the public, it's easier for the government in power to manage the talking points to suit there political agendas. I would hope that reporters would prod for information.

A big question is why is it always males? What are we doing to male childred, or not doing, that may prime them to randomly murder masses of people? Could it be video games where the winner is the one that kills the most people? Lack of father figures? Bullying? Girls don't do this. Why boys?
4meAndyou · F
@Heartlander I have no answers for you, except to say that the guns probably impart a false macho image and a temporary feeling of power.