Love it!
As it was a school shooting that prompted the presidents investigations into gun reform and now video game censorship, I went looking for a list of Criminal or Terrorist school shooters but could only find the San Bernardo incident from 2015 which while tragic does not set a precedent...
I did find this list though:
https://listverse.com/2017/11/15/10-school-shooters-on-why-they-did-it/
For all the world it appears a sizable portion of shooters in schools are unhinged angry kids who just snapped... How did these kids ever ever hold of a gun?
Quotes from the list:
His massacre, he said, was something the world deserved “just for the crime of living a better life than me.” / “If I cannot have it, [his version of a perfect world] I will do everything I can to destroy it.”
“This is what I’m thinking. I have a goal to destroy as much as possible.” [...] “Everyone should be put to a test,” he wrote, “see who can survive in an environment using only smarts and military skills.” Those who didn’t question conventional values, he felt, were “unfit for anything at all. Especially life.”
“I don’t like Mondays.” [...] she told them that shooting children was “like shooting ducks on a pond” and that she “liked to watch them squirm after they were hit.” [...] The gun she’d used had been given to her by her father, and she’d taken it as a hint. “I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun,” Spencer said. “I felt like he wanted me to kill myself.”
“What I wanted, was to get people to leave me alone.” [...] “I decided I needed to do something to stand up for myself, I chose to kill.”
“...to teach everyone a lesson about what happens when you bully others.”
“I kill because people like me are mistreated every day. I do this to show society—push us and we will push back.”
“There was a deep part of me that just exploded, I’m not normally like that.” [...] “They’d just call me an idiot, stupid, fat, ugly, whatever,” she said. “One incident was I was walking home from school and five or six kids were behind me and they started throwing stones at me . . . They were just kind of laughing and I don’t know why they were doing this but they were barking at me.” [...] “I wanted her to know my pain.”
To him, his massacre was nothing more than a trip to the other side of existence. He just wanted to make sure his friends were there with him. He murdered four people and injured one more purely because, in his words, “I didn’t want to go alone.”
“Oh the happiness I could have had mingling among you hedonists, being counted as one of you, if only you didn’t f**k the living s**t out of me.”
These are the people America could be doing something about, but isn't. Yet.
From reports I could find it seems to be the terrorist and criminal related school shootings are barley present in the statistics but the alienated/unhinged pupil/ex-pupil list seems to have a strong showing.
Now, what the above has to do about censoring computer games I don't know and would hope the same conclusions are raised in the POTUS investigations, but at least we are discussing it. :slight_smile:
