How do you suppose we help would be school shooters?

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Some kids in high school have an obsession with horror movies or death metal music and violent lyrics. They dress scary too, but a lot of the kids are harmless and just having fun. rawing skulls and violent pictures and their own comics. I used to do that somewhat too some. So dont assume every person who wears black or likes hardcore music or some future shooter.

It really is how they treat others and if they have made some kind of threat or sign they want to kill someone. Some school shooters look really normal as well.

By the way why limit it to schools? Why not malls, theaters, streets etc? Call them rampage shooters and spree shooters.

The Portland Mall shooter who shot a lot of people and killed 2 just 2 days before Sandy Hook looked like a normal guy who liked BMX bikes and things.

There are awareness programs to identify people at risk of suicide. Similar could be done for these situations. The number of incidents each year is small, but there's probably a larger number of people who wish they could do it and they need some kind of treatment or intervention.

I don't know how these kids were given all these guns by their parents. What if Mercer's mom had spent the money buying her son prostitutes instead?

Does anyone else think that the problem is not the shooters, but the environment that creates them? The school system is fundamentally flawed. Education is necessary, but delivering it in these prison-like institutions is more harmful than it's worth.
Society has to think about education and child-rearing in a different way. More homeschooling via the internet would be a start. It would take a shift in the economy as currently one parent staying at home with their child is financially impossible.
I'd like to say that people should only have kids if they're actually interested in rearing them, rather than abandoning them to caregivers, but that would be politically incorrect and it wouldn't happen anyway.
The school system is unhealthy and I think these killers are a natural response to a harmful environment. The system has to become more supportive of differing norms. And go back to being more community based.

Does anyone else think that it is stupid to blame anyone else but the murderer?

After all, it was not the parents who pulled the trigger, nor was it the teachers, the other students, nor even the people who allegedly bullied the murderer.

No, it was the murderer who picked up the weapon, loaded it, took aim, and pulled the trigger.

Yet, there are people who will blame everyone except the murderer, and who will even use the term "shooter" instead, so as to not place any blame by implication on the murderer himself.

The murderer is to blame for the murders he committed, and no one else.

the UK is not a good country to look up to. Especially nowadays. Try Europe ie Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland. Much much better countries all round.

Well you have me on Switzerland but it's usually libertarians that hold them up, most leftists in this country either completely ignore the Swiss or condemn them as some evil banking villain. They also kind of destroy any gun control argument since they actually require their militia store automatic "assault rifles" in their homes and they have which encompasses most of the young men in the country and they have one lowest homicide rates in the world. The Swiss did kind of sell out when they joined the UN in 2002 tho.