How you "understand" school shootings depends a lot on how closely it has impacted you. When a deranged student shot up a classroom at Umpqua Community College, he chose a class he was a member of. The instructor he killed was a friend and colleague who had been my student teacher. The student had a history off-kilter behavior. I think every secondary teacher with a few year's experience gets some students they see could be dangerous. It's become a tradition now among the deranged to study the course of school shoot-ups. They want to join the club. As for the Sandy Hook shooter, his mother would nor have bought an AR-15 if the Assault Rifle ban had not been allowed to lapse. She was monumentally stupid, but not a law-breaker. Note, too, the Assault Rifle ban was fully supported By Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.It was not just some wacko-Democrat feel good effort.

Last edited by rocky mtn bill; 02/24/18 07:28 PM. Reason: addition
Bill Ferguson