Cleveland shooting

DannyinJapan

DannyinJapan

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I just wanted to say that this is one of those events that very clearly illustrates a problem with our schools.
The kid had KNOWN previously diagnosed mental health problems and was in a school prone to violence.
He was probably not the only student with a gun that day.
This one quote told me everything:

Coon came out of the bathroom and bumped Mike and Mike punched him in his face. Mike started walking. He shot Mike in the side," Smith said.

You step out of the bathroom and bump into somebody, so they punch you in the face. Nice school, huh?
 
After hearing about this today, The one thing that actually encouraged me about schools was something I remember finding while doing a research paper on ancient Greece in college . Don't know who or where exactly I found it but it was a rather poetic complaint about how public schools are crap.

It made me feel good to know that however you set it up the public school system has always been a joke and has been that way since the dawn of time and isn't going to stop anytime soon.

Don't mean to be too cynical, but America's lack of mental health facilities, for both the young and old is something that needs to be looked at.
 
America does not lack mental health facilities. There are plenty of other places you could go and get a blank stare mentioning mental health facilities. What we lack is a police state that would immediately confine anyone suspected of violent tendencies to a mental health facility.

Does this incident point to a general behavioral pattern at that school, or could those two young men be long-standing antagonists, looking for a chance to be obnoxious to each other? At least, the one doing the punching doesn't seem to have had a gun.
 
Esav has a point. In Japan they dont acknowledge mental illness. (its a dirty secret)
But I mean: How does a mentally ill 14 yr old get TWO guns and a bag full of ammo and sneak them into a school with metal detectors?
Was there not, at some point in time, some person who was designated his guardian?
Is this not the kind of thing they were supposed to try to prevent?
 
Was there not, at some point in time, some person who was designated his guardian?
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Well, there ya go. For most of us, that was a parent, probably two, maybe grandparents. For some of these kids, parents are the worst thing that happened to them.
 
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