This is absurd. He pesters a girl who is not interested in him (and it’s obvious for good reason) and he kills her along with nine others, and he is the victim! Only somebody not mentally right thinks that way. This family should never have been allowed to migrated to this country.
One wild assumption after another is being made here on this thread. If you read the family background, they were religious and active in their church, as were their kids. Both the mother and father appear to have backed a MAGA philosophy of supporting the NRA (the father) and the wife making religious posts on FB as well as a MAGA comment. The father posted family pics of him hugging his kids. In other words a pretty typical family.
The boy took a bad turn somewhere along the line, possibly because of bullying, possibly because of extremely immature proclivities, shyness, fragile ego, whatever, and it appears he got into the dark side of today’s cultural life that chooses mass shootings as a means of coping with their mental fantasies and problems. I think the kid starting obsessing over his personal problems that he kept to himself, and started plotting his revenge for said slights by becoming even more obsessive and fixated on a deadly “cure”. I don’t see how this could have easily been picked up on by most anyone, because his behavior just didn’t manifest itself obviously to others.
We as a society can’t possibly account for the actions of every oddball’s actions within a country with a population of approximately 250 million, give or take a few million, plus people. What we can do is better fortify and protect our schools, institute checks at entryways, stop building more mega schools that are easy targets with too many entryways, have anonymous hotlines (both phone and email) for students to report repeated bizarre or abnormal behavior on the part of their fellow students, etc.
This last method would have to be carefully monitored and reviewed though, so that it isn’t used as a way for students with axes of their own to grind to report a fellow student for alleged bizarre behavior. Careful followup by counselors and discreet probing would need to be in order, but it would give students a means to throw out red flags about problem students who are too much the loner, who withdraw from normal activities they once pursued, who consistently bully others, etc. so that these warning signs can be addressed before they blossom into full blown anti-social incidents.
There are no easy cures here, and always blaming parents for their child’s behavior isn’t necessarily the answer either. Many times it is, sometimes it isn’t. Or saying these people shouldn’t have been let into this country when in this case the father legally migrated here some years ago, had a church going family, and a middle class industrious life, and appears to have been supporting political viewpoints similar to our own here on FR. The parents unfortunately ended up with a screwed up kid who kept his problems to himself. Who amongst us would have picked up on this kid’s internal angst ourselves? I ask you.
We should address how best to protect our kids with practical solutions of how to fortify and guard our schools, as with such a large country, we can’t stop all isolated attacks by defective fellow humans. It will never happen. And we can reintroduce religion back into our school systems, and teach codes of conduct and morality to the children, as it was for so many years before the socialist progressives took over control of too many of our country’s key institutions, namely the mass media, our courts, and our educational system. They are rotting out our country from within.
Therein lies many of our problems. Evil or misguided and misled socialist elites polluting under-educated masses they seek to lead through lies, misinformation, the sins of omission, nihilist viewpoints, and other nefarious means.
I might add, the over-feminizing of our society and the and the constant demasculization of our young men who are treated as disposable objects merely to be used as fertilizer for the new globalist state with no individual say so in how our families will be raised. We have some deep seated problems here folks, very deep seated.
Finally, I must say that conservatives must get much more involved (as do so many Freepers) in fighting back against the constant and insidious progressive inroads. The problem is most conservatives are busy working, while the progressive elites finance the welfare state they have created, where so many able bodied people don’t work or filch off the government coffers, and thus are available with all their spare time to hold constant demonstrations and marches, and protests galore.
Meanwhile we sucker conservatives work and help support these activities, because we are by nature doers, not takers. Conservatives pull the wagon; liberals are in it.
We need to infiltrate the progressives’ bastions of power. We need to elect more conservative politicians, produce more conservative teachers and professors, elect and appoint more judges (Trump making great inroads here) and increase our political reach through the media by starting up conservative cable TV stations, both local and national (Sinclair station is now doing this on a national level, thank goodness) and by any other means necessary to get our viewpoints out there. We need more than just one half of a station (Fox News) with all the other alphabet stations and cable news stations being liberal 24/7.
If we cannot get our viewpoints out there, and teach our youth conservative values, we are in serious trouble as a nation. It’s up to us to fight the progressives back tooth and tong, and stop being such polite wusses. We must fight as dirty as necessary, as they sure will. We are bringing a knife to a gun fight, and this must stop.
As must I, having babbled on here for far too long, lol. Had a cumulative lot on my mind. Forgive the length.