>>You have to look the lonely, shy kid in the face and ask questions. You have to talk to the parents, the friends. You have to go into their bedrooms and see if they're stockpiling weapons. And if you're really that disturbed, you need to call somebody and get some help.<<
I enjoyed your whole post, but the above is mostly what struck me, as I've been thinking about this, too. I'm wondering, you who? People who are this on the edge would be very difficult to be around, let alone nose into their business. People who try, it seems, can't get very far.
As a society, we're not very well set-up for people like this. The focus is on guns, because those are tangible, but I agree with you regarding them. It seems to me that the real focus should be on prevention and targeting people who are shaky or on violent foundations (what you said :)), but even then, prevention is tricky.
If he'd gotten help\been helped before all this happened, I don't think we would have had news reports that said, "Yay! Thirty deaths were prevented!"
Well, thanks for listening, great post, and my sympathies are with the victims, survivors, students, and school as well. And for the shooter's family, as well--I can't begin to imagine the shame and horror they're going through.
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Date: 2007-04-23 12:36 pm (UTC)I enjoyed your whole post, but the above is mostly what struck me, as I've been thinking about this, too. I'm wondering, you who? People who are this on the edge would be very difficult to be around, let alone nose into their business. People who try, it seems, can't get very far.
As a society, we're not very well set-up for people like this. The focus is on guns, because those are tangible, but I agree with you regarding them. It seems to me that the real focus should be on prevention and targeting people who are shaky or on violent foundations (what you said :)), but even then, prevention is tricky.
If he'd gotten help\been helped before all this happened, I don't think we would have had news reports that said, "Yay! Thirty deaths were prevented!"
Well, thanks for listening, great post, and my sympathies are with the victims, survivors, students, and school as well. And for the shooter's family, as well--I can't begin to imagine the shame and horror they're going through.