Archive for April, 2007

School shootings from a different perspective

2007 April 24

I typically have a somewhat different perspective on things and here’s mine on school shootings. Before I tell you my ideas on reducing school shootings, consider this, how many shooters have we actually arrested and prosecuted? Very few of them. What happens to most of them? Most of them die before they can be arrested. How do they die? A fair number of them simply kill themselves once they’re cornered. Some of these shootings are political and have some sort of motivation behind them. This probably won’t stop. People will continue to get frustrated. Other shootings are a bit of a mystery. It is a violent lashing out at the world though. What happens at the end of a fair number of shootings though is a suicide.
So my idea is this, what if we simply made it more acceptable to simply kill yourself? Maybe if it was more acceptable, people who are suicidally depressed will be content staying suicidally depressed instead of making the leap to homicidally depressed. Let’s leave an alternative for frustrated depressed people. The worst thing we can do is limit options till society in general becomes the subject of one’s frustrations.