by The Legend » Mar 03, '18, 9:00 am
I can't take this stuff any more. I read a story where a 7th grader brought a rifle to my old middle school and had planned to carry out a shooting, but somehow managed to shoot and kill himself while preparing for it in a bathroom in the school. We're talking a 13 year-old. There's been a school shooting in America every week this year.
I'm all in favor for stricter gun control and just enforcing the laws that we do have on the books as well, but this problem goes so much deeper than making it more difficult for a teenager to get their hands on a gun when they come to the decision to want to shoot up their school. These kid's don't snap in an instant, it's not a random act of violence. These kids are abused at home, bullied at school and altogether left isolated by the world for pretty much their entire lives until they feel so desperate they don't know where to go or what do. Making it more difficult when that decision is made is fine, but how about we also find a way to intercede in the decade leading up to these incidents and start preventing people from ever getting to this point to
Where did we get to a point where we have become so uncaring for our fellow man that we abuse and put others down to make ourselves feel better about our own insecurities? We are far too competitive as a nation, we are far too callous and care far too little about our fellow man. Once we answer those issues, we will truly take a step forward as a nation.
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