School shooting?

Question

Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec
Amish School, PA, U.S.A
High School, Colorodo, UT
Ecole Polytechue, Mtl, QC
Columbine, Columbine, U.S.A

Why?

Answer 1

You've just voiced the question that everyone else is asking.

If we knew why, maybe we could prevent it from happening.

I can't agree with the answerer who blames guns--guns are like anything else, and their harm comes not from the inanimate objects that they are, but what they're used for in human hands. It's the people who kill, the gun is merely the weapon of choice, which could be anything--a knife, explosives, even an airplane, as we saw all too clearly five years ago. Come to that, how many people have died from being beaten by someone else's hands and feet? Or blunt force trauma from an object used as a club? The point I'm trying to make here is that anything, literally, can be turned to a bad purpose, not just firearms.

Maybe it's just some perverse desire for attention. Maybe it's something that causes a person who has, maybe, been downtrodden throughout life to just snap and act out in such an awful way. We can come up with any number of reasons, and be right, wrong, off base, or whatever with every last one.

I wish I could give you a satisfactory answer. Equally, I wish I could give myself one.

Answer 2

Ok, first of all. These were all seperate accounts, with seperate people. I do not believe they could all be reasoned down to one reason. No pattern. Even Columbine, that was two separate kids. One was very lonely, the other, a psychopath. However, you never heard tell of them separately. I however, do NOT think that anyone shoots someone for fun. Maybe some dumbass who doesn't know what the crap they are talking about might, but not me. Anyway, there is not a reason other than the fact that they were not prevented.

Answer 3

Okay, here's a quick, short answer.

I don't know!!!

I agree with Glo. If we knew, they wouldn't be happening.

I hope nobody blames the guns though. People hurt people. Guns don't hurt people. These people would try something even if guns were illegal. I think society needs to take a long hard look at itself, answer the tough questions and make the world safer for our children.

i.e., keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people, stop the bullying in schools, teach our children responsibility.

I was bullied in school and it took me well into my adulthood to work out the issues that were brought up by the bullying. To a certain extent, I instruct my children based on my experiences with bullying.

Lastly, our children are not being taught responsibility for their own actions. From politics to the movies, all they see is how to get out of their responsibilities. We need to be teaching them to take responsibility for their own actions.

In other words, take your responsibilities seriously parents.

Thanks for the soap-box opportunity.

Answer 4

Here in Brazil our problema is the bandits.
They are very dangerous and attack anybody, they fight with the police and all day have children hurt or die.
The society don't know to live in harmony and the mental sicks do not think in their actions.
In Brazil is proibited carry, sold or buy guns, but the drug's traffic comercialize these products and is very difficult the control of our border (its very long).
I expect, one day this problem end in the world.

Answer 5

Extreme feelings of being slighted mixed with someone who feels its to late to make up for it in a fair way. There is also a lot more disrespect in society and lack of empathy then our parents generation though teasing has always been normal.

Why to in this country is it always males with the exception of that woman who went postal in that postal facility. There are woman terrorist blowing themselves up over there in Israel.
I personally think that the males have been slighted ever since the feminists movement has taken hold, I mean why in the eighties did judges always give custody to the women when in lot
of cases the male was the better parent more suited for a normal up bringing of a kid. I could go on and on with examples and experiences in my own life to know why and hte sad part it I think there is going to be lot more plus I think that guns suck and should not be accessable to the public except in places where of the U.S. where hunting is neccssary to keep wildlife populations manageable. I can go down the streetM and get a gun at pawn shop, I think thats ****** up! I have enough faith in the police force and military for them to have all the guns personally.

Answer 6

I think if we knew why, it would not have happened again and again. I believe for the most part, we were dealing with some very sick individuals, And no one seen the signs until after the tragedy happened. God bless

Answer 7

Its because guns are too easily available (explaining the high US homicide rate when compared to other western nations).

Answer 8

Those people had issues that other people didn't notice or just ignored. There is no real explanation.

Answer 9

who knows. whoever the shooters were thought it would be fun and entertaining for the moment. but it's certainly not worth it.

Answer 10

Because your country allows negligent people to own guns.
Because children watch violent movies.
Because some kids don't have love in their lives.