[QUOTE=Ellis Amdur;2882668]Per Secret Service report, almost all school shootings by juveniles are pre-planned. Most attackers communicated grievances to others prior to the attack. Prior to the incident in 75% of the cases, the attackers told someone about their interest in mounting an attack. In more than 50%, they told more than one person about the ideas or plans. BUT - In only 2 cases did peers, in formed of the intent, notify an adult of the threat.
There is no particular psychological profile associated with juvenile school shooters.
BUT:
In nearly 66% of the incidents with juvenile active shooters, the guns came from their home or that of a relative.
So, from this, we can derive the following:
- Even with all the encouragement in the world, youth are generally not going to inform adults that their peer intends to shoot up the school.
- Mental health professionals/mental health treatment probably won’t help, as we cannot mandate treatment for what we don’t see (and there are millions of kids already in treatment - if that was the answer, we are either treating the wrong kids, or it’s not the answer at all).
- If kids have to go outside the home to get a firearm, that means they’ll be stealing it, borrowing it or buying it (illegally). In all three cases, they are far more likely to be found out. Just like a person can have a drug addiction stealing meds from grandma’s hospice care and no one knows, but if they have to go on the street, they’ll soon be noticed.
In short, not ‘gun control’ rather 'control of the guns in the family’s possession.[/QUOTE]
I know you can’t seriously be expecting people to have any personal responsibility or actually take part in their kids lives right?? As far as the mental health aspect goes that route will never work as long as people with mental health problems are treated like ticking time bombs or like they have lepracy. It makes it too hard for people with those problems to come foward and get help.