well well well another school mass shooting...

[340pd]

"The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz In September"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/the-fbi-was-warned-about-a-school-shooting-threat-from?utm_term=.tcDK91VEey#.vpQbXWnKO2

[knkali]

well well well another school mass shooting...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/breaki...id=mailsignout
I didn't bother to read the article b/c it isn't going to tell me anything that will influence this post..
How many more kids are going to be sequestered into a shooting gallery that we call a school without the protection that they deserve?
Its time for people to fully comprehend that the world is changing. Of course no one likes these changes--the changes that drive people to do such heinous things are clearly not for the better.
Its time for teachers to be trained and armed should they choose to be. Its time for schools to have people walk the campus armed and trained to protect the defenseless and to stop or at least lessen the impact the of those that wish to do harm.
Will this completely stop such events from further happening? No, but what we are doing now is only leading children to the slaughter house.
The recent and past school shootings are terrible beyond words, but the time to act has arrived. ENOUGH!
Kids have enough things to worry about in the world today....being locked up together so that they are easy prey to those that are determined to do harm and have no respect for life is not something they should have to endure.
I would love to live in a world where this doesn't happen but the reality is contrary. It does happen. It happens enough that we have to change the educational setting to adjust for it like it or not.

I realize I am preaching to the choir here on this forum but I would like to hear from anyone who has a better idea or approach.

Thanks for listening

[Ken L]

This is yet another senseless tragedy.

I wonder if a lot of this abhorrent behavior is brought about by the "participation trophy" mentality that is the current norm. In this instance, guy is upset because the girl he was seeing decides she's had enough and moves on to another guy. This guy gets into a fight with the new guy. Gets expelled. It's somehow the school's fault that all this happened. The entitlement/video game/face stuck in their phone generation lives less and less in the real world, and society says that it's OK.

Rant over.

[Bawanna]

They need to bring back profiling. Seriously. One look at this guy and I can tell he's several degrees out of plumb.

I have no faith in shrinks, about as reliable as lawyers. But profiling. That's the ticket.

[Ikeo74]

It's time to get serious about crime. 1st) Hold teens accountable for crimes the same as an adult, no free pass until you are 18. You do the crime you do the time. 2nd) Make penalties swift and public. For those caught in the act of a crime where there is no doubt about being the guilty party. Serve the penalty within 30 to 60 days, no longer. Make death penalties public events. It won't take long for crimes to plummet. No 30 years on death row anymore.

[berettabone]

Look at the eyes, then look at the ears.............................................. ..not on the same planet as the rest of us. They're like the molesters, once it's in them, you can't fix them. People laugh at the word/description zombie. It's exactly what he is.............dead from the inside out, no remorse, no conscience, space cadet. Kills for the "cause" or "self gratification." Only 2 things to do with them. Lock them up forever or...................................

[dustnchips]

Oh, Oh, I have big ears too.

[deadeye]

Look at the trash coming out of Hollywood that is supposed to be entertainment. Listen to the violent comments coming from certain politicians and college professors on the daily news. Nothing happens to them. We have made a snowflake generation that can't stand to loose at anything. Buy them coloring books and teddy bears and coddle them. Participation trophies? HUH? Taking guns away is the answer? Knkali is 100% correct.

[Bobshouse]

There will be a ban placed on AR-15 style rifles. I don't know why, you can currently take your Ruger 10-22 and make it look like the deadliest thing on the planet, but I guess looks are everything in todays world. In actuality, there should be a ban on reporting these incidents. Can't become famous? Become infamous. A school shooting will get your name coast to coast in less than a minute.

[ltxi]

There will be a ban placed on AR-15 style rifles. I don't know why, you can currently take your Ruger 10-22 and make it look like the deadliest thing on the planet, but I guess looks are everything in todays world. In actuality, there should be a ban on reporting these incidents. Can't become famous? Become infamous. A school shooting will get your name coast to coast in less than a minute.

And therein lies a point. Assault style/looking rifles are higly attractive to the weird, unstable, and antisocial vermin. If they weren't generally available OTB..... And mostly none of these fools, especially the kiddies, would have any idea how to cosmetically convert anything into "Look at me, I'm a MF Bad Ass Killer!" black guns.

This latest shooting has, finally, pushed me over the edge. I will support sales of frames, receivers, and parts to construct. But I'm done defending against OTB "assault weapons" bans. As noted, the world has changed, not for the better. We can't fix that. We have to live with it. And mass school shootings of children, in particular, just needs to be contained/stop.

[JohnR]

This kid apparently joined a white supremacy cult. Fatherless kids often drift into cults or gangs. We allow so many of these psychopathic cults and gangs to flourish - why??? Who benefits? The only answer gets me branded a conspiracy whacko.

[ltxi]

This kid apparently joined a white supremacy cult. Fatherless kids often drift into cults or gangs. We allow so many of these psychopathic cults and gangs to flourish - why??? Who benefits? The only answer gets me branded a conspiracy whacko.

But....how do you stop it?

[kwh]

Can the Left & the Right come together to think outside the box? New times= new ideas needed. I am tired of the same old do nothing arguments over the past 55 years.
If we can leave politics alone and come up with a think tank, that may lead to new ideas.

[Planedude]

If you don't do anything about the crazy, then the killing will continue. "Taking away the guns" will effect us (pretty much only) and make the crazies use rental trucks, fertilizer bombs or the simple Molotov cocktail to make their mark.

Its the crazy, not the gun that we need to work on...

But, once the liberials figure a way to "ban Americans guns", we will have the blueprint for finally controlling and eliminating the real plague in America today, "social" media.

I think the founding fathers would understand the AR-15. They would probably be very impressed by it. I doubt that they would get how "free speech" has been bacterized by social media's multi faceted outlets and 24 hour a day news cycle. The loudest voices for stripping out the second amendment really cant grasp the huge peril they place their own, precious first amendment in. I hope the muzzle their efforts earn, fits harsh, good and tight...

The answer is in good, affordable Mental health help to prevent the urges from become a murderous act and armed police in the schools to stop the nut jobs in their tracks when that fails. We just have to decide as a nation that we will pay for it.


Peace

[JohnR]

Mental health is the key. We can't keep throwing drugs at everyone who says they're depressed, that's how we got all these psycho killers. Too many prescription drugs are doing things to our minds that are worse than what they're prescribed for.

Government is never the answer. Look to God.