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>> We’re not paying enough attention to marginal and alienated kids.

Just finished a two-day course on trauma and victimization funded by the DoJ. Good course; the anecdotes from the instructors and students really brought the material home. Here’s one:

New third grade teacher (8-9 years of age) - just out of college and in his first months of work - lets the kids out for recess when his mentor gives him a chalkboard assignment: “Make a list of all your students. 24 kids in class; he lists 17 of them and then gets stuck. He had listed the troublemakers first (duh!), then the good students.

The mentor then asked “What about the other 7?” He answered “They’re pretty much invisible.” “Exactly”, said the mentor, “and they’re the most at-risk kids of the whole bunch.”

“It’s your job to draw them in; to complement them when they do something positive. Considering the sh!t they have to deal with at home, you may be THE only person in their life who cares. You could make an impact that lasts the rest of their lives.”

They’re pretty much invisible.” “Exactly”, said the mentor, “and they’re the most at-risk kids of the whole bunch.”

This is my view of the "typical' school shooter. .

The Parkland shooter aside, most of the killers were most described as "quiet", "lone," and "nice"..

Despite the current thinking that the kids were on drugs, I have yet to read much authentic information about these troubled teens receiving anti-psychotic medications. Only Adam Lanza of Sandy Hook fell into this category.

The only conspiracy is the system herding all kids in these "mega-schools' where a struggling teen is ignored until he becomes a problem. This goes well with the working/absent parent memes as well.

One more thing. The prevailing attitude from the media and society in general that al kids are 'special" and "unique" when most are just, well average. Yet their expectations are unrealistic. And when failure happens, as we all have failed to one degree or another , they snap and grab the nearest weapon and head toward their selected target.

In this case, a girl(or more) rejected his advances and his pain of rejection turned into blind rage and he set out to get "revenge"

At least this is my view, I may be wrong.