i think most school shootings are just a representation of how messed up our society is. i know that sounds like i'm totally taking the dumb "YEAH ANARCHY DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM" punk rock way out of this, but i honestly think the sort of kids that pull this shit aren't bad people. "what?", you say. "they murdered and injured many of their classmates! how could they be a good person? how could they not know better?"
look, i'm not saying i want to bring a gun to school and shoot anyone or anything, but everyone feels like killing someone or something at some point in their lives. it's called control. these kids just snap and decide that it's time to shake things up a bit...in the worst way possible. maybe it's bad of me to feel sympathy, but maybe if they were happy for once, or had friends or something, then the situation could've been avoided. they must've just not been able to handle things anymore. of course someone who commits an act like this has to be coming from a background of severe psychological issues, known or unknown.
these sorts of occurences definitely detract from a school's reputation and concept of "safety". we've been continually taught that schools are safe places to be, and now i think that everyone is questioning that. i'm not sure how trying to investigate the backgrounds and attributes of recent shooters could really prevent further crimes of this sort, without using discrimination and possibly targeting many innocent people who just happen to coincidentally have similar traits.
i'm ignorant as to what the current gun control laws concern, but i think people should be able to purchase potentially dangerous weapons only after an extensive background check or screening, that could easily be devised by psychologists, to test for violent or abusive personality tendencies.
after reading the article profiling kazmierczak's history of mental illness, i really dislike how the author chose to use his tattoos as some sort of catalyst for his violence. the subject matter of the tattoo may be questionable, considered "inappropriate", or even possibly an outward sign of his disturbing side, but i think a perfectly normal/sane/peaceful person could also display such artwork and just find it very symbolic. i'm probably only mentioning this because i find tattoos to be very expressive, and as an aspiring tattoo artist myself, i found this article to be very forcefully prejudiced against people with tattoos.
i think it's especially interesting how it's never the typically "disturbed" or "loner" kids who commit these random acts of violence. it's always the normal nice guys.
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Agreed. It's just that emotions get out of hand and they don't have the kind of control that most people do. Tattoos?? What the helllllll
people can be so dumb.
good post.
we definitely agree on this sort of thing.
I enjoyed your comment, thanks!
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