When I listen to any political person rail against guns as a fix for school shootings, I get upset. The focus in wrong and yet it persists and dominates headlines. This tells me there is a lack of real concern to address violence in our schools.\u00a0\u00a0Instead we get political correctness.<\/p>\n
Journalists, look at the statistics and challenge statements that aren’t true. Gun free zones are targets. Any teen knows that if you want to take as many people out in a shooting, go to the defenseless. \u00a0Schools are filled with defenseless kids at the mercy of someone whose intention is to wreak as much havoc and loss of life as possible.<\/p>\n
Schools are often the center of community life in small towns and suburban areas-another\u00a0 reason they are chosen for shootings.\u00a0The attention of an entire community is gained when a sick person shoots students.<\/p>\n
So what can be done to lessen the chances of violence? \u00a0Notice I didn’t say stop school shootings. Unfortunately, even when we know what to look for in a shooter and want\u00a0to prevent \u00a0violence, a disenfranchised person with a motive of revenge can’t always be stopped. And that is what is frightening. We don’t know the tipping point for a disturbed individual even when we know the signs.<\/p>\n
What we do know:<\/strong> We know the profile of a typical shooter:<\/p>\n What can be done?<\/strong> \u00a0Multiple interventions are needed. It’s not a simple solution like gun control.<\/p>\n\n
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