why are there so many school shootings this century?

Question

how do the numbers compare yearly? does there seem to be more from since the nineties than before the nineties decade.
and has any scientific research found any causes of it?

Answer 1

Some kids today want to get a boiling pent-up message, built on rage that they feel respect is commanded by the gun and the violence that follows. I don't want to point the blame on rap music and video games, but it DOES seem since the mass proliferation of pop culture popularity of the two--there has been growing incidents of school violence within our society. I think the two share some blame.

Family dysfunction that seeps towards abuse also levies a factor into the mess: the Columbine shooters were kids from an affluent family--who NEVER monitored their sons' behavior or personal impressionable lives.

The majority of school gun toters/shooters are black urban kids--and look at what they are exposed to: squalor of poverty, dysfunctional parental abuse (of all types in many cases), brazen acts of neighborhood violence and illicit criminal acts in broad daylight (an otherwise typical day in the Projects). They delve deep into Rap music and hold their "gangsta" thugs in role model regard; bringing out to life the very songs they listen to.

For them: The Gun begets fear, which begets respect--and you have to show the 'hood you mean business...or face ridicule.

For others, rage boils in a welded shut kettle until all Hell blows wide--and some kid tired of being "persecuted" by bullies or discredited by rude students opens fire--getting rid of those who made his school life miserable.

All our Nation's schools need heavy prevalence of police or trained security presence aimed at preventing school violence. School staff and student uniform dress code polices are NOT the solution; only a profitable means for clothing stores tied to the local school system. Shame our $$$ pays for a $50 BILLION A MONTH WAR when that money CAN protect our school children--who have a right to live through a school day and come home alive.

Answer 2

Because school drives anyone crazy!