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Why are there so many threats to schools?

WTF is wrong with these kids and parents ?
Do parents not gaf about their kids anymore ?
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Ontheroad · M
I can't be sure, but of the 417 school shootings since Columbine, the median age of the shooters was 16.

This leads me to believe we are dealing with a large number of teenagers with mental health issues that have not been identified (or if noted), and whose parents, schools, and law enforcement, have not properly dealt with.

Secondly, it's the ease with which these teenagers were able to put their hands on firearms and ammunition.

Social media is another part of it.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@Ontheroad What is interesting that it is largely an American problem. No where else in the world comes close to the per capita school shootings.
luckranger71 · 51-55, M
@JimboSaturn Yeah it’s a complete mystery because we know for sure it can’t be the wide availability of guns, can it?

It must be that teenagers in the rest of the developed world get all their mental health issues addressed and they don’t have the same access to social media.
Ontheroad · M
@JimboSaturn Ease of access to firearms is one reason why we are different. Another is our form of government and having 50 states that by-in-large, govern themselves. Still another is crappy/almost nonexistent mental health care for many.