Sanguina Cruenta
Pretty apathetic really. I don't understand why this gets more attention than if it had happened in, say, Pakistan. I didn't know any of the people directly involved, therefore, I do not care. It was briefly exciting and then became a bit depressing because no one would shut up about it.
You're asking what the boy's motives were? I don't know. He's dead, so we can't ask him.
Could it have been prevented? It wasn't like human error, someone committed murder. Who knows? It's odd to me that "could this have been prevented?" is more of a question asked in this situation than if a serial killer has been stabbing prostitutes at truck stops. Maybe yes, maybe no. He could have been hit by a car on his way to the school. He could have been aborted as a foetus. He could have changed his mind. We don't have the right information to make these sorts of guesses.
The USA is ******** mental about their gun laws. I get having a handgun or two in the house, or a hunting rifle. Farmers here usually have shotguns. But you don't need huge-a** automatic weapons. You don't need sub-machine guns. That's ******** ridiculous. Having actual background checks on people who want to buy a gun is probably a good idea too.
I don't know what you could do to stop this sort of event as a nation. Personally I think you may be better off if you just let the country collapse and break off into separate states. You're going to hell in a handbasket at present, and it would be more entertaining to watch if every time the US wagged its tail it didn't knock over someone's expensive vase.
I've heard people say 'There's a reason why so many other first-world countries like Canada or the UK that outright ban guns altogether."
I understand why Americans would continue to have them, to them, it's a tool of freedom, represents liberation for them. Just look at how they glorify war in movies, or in videogames, guns are always used as a form of liberation or coming of age, nothing more than tools to be tossed aside when they are used up, contrast to foreign games like in Japan where every weapon is one you're stuck with and build upon that soon becomes an extension of yourself. Swords were a great part of Japan's history, so why isn't everyone carrying a sword in their house? Why are those who actually know how to use a sword only granted wooden, non-lethal ones, and real swords all antiques to never be used? Because letting everyone get their hands on dangerous stuff means letting everyone who SHOULDN'T get their hands on them have the right to use them.
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