Not crazy, internet moves quickly, especially when the news is EXTREMELY interested in shit like this. I actually despise how quickly the news went up to children to interview them post shooting, like I get there's a story, and having multiple perspectives from different generations adds to it, but ffs they are children who just went through a traumatizing experience.
Gonna go on a lunatic tangent, but as a former quiet kid who had thoughts of doing similar things I kinda wish they wouldn't charge the shooter(a reported 14 year old) as an adult, since the entire point of charging someone as a child is because their not as developmentally mature as an adult. I get people wanting justice, especially grieving families, I truly do, but even still. Maybe this is unhinged and abhorrent to say, but I just feel that there's more to a school shooter than being mentally insane or naturally evil. Im not trying to justify the shooting, just analyze it.
I wish socially we would just stop giving school shooters so much attention. Maybe if it actually amounted to something, but the reality is at most it typically results in school safety changes(such as shooter drills) or in the case of parkland they changed the age to purchase a firearm to be 21(which i guess prevented senior school shooters from purchasing and mass shooting). Also worth mentioning that as far as I'm aware, California, a notoriously anti gun state, has the highest school shootings in the country. Even if im being generous at the very most the cumulative shootings resulted higher caliber or rifle bans, which is something, but pistols and concealed weapons are still a bigger threat in terms of actual gun violence.
Im also not saying the shooters motive was for attention or a message, if I had to guess from the descriptions other students gave, it's more than likely the shooter was isolated and potentially bullied(maybe a reach nothing confirmed yet), but it always seems like there is a significant amount of attention thrown onto it, in which media essentially dogpiles either poor parenting or the shooter and then either attempts to defend or blame gun rights. I guess it's just easier to put the blame individuals rather than socially address things like children having access to their parents guns or school bullying. Still sad to see.
Rip to those who lost their lives, and to some level, a technical rip to the shooter who also lost his life as he is likely not coming out for the rest of his life.
