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Originally Posted by SykkBoy
The problem isn't guns, it's mentally unstable people going off in public
We have serious issues dealing with mental illness in this country. Until we get to the root of the problem, everyone will just flap their fucking gums about guns and gun control, while playing the blame game...
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Going further, the problem is the media. Had the first high school shooting never been front page news all over the globe, there would not have been another... and so on. It's a well studied fact that suicides in the news cause a spike in suicides. There is a direct correlation.
It would not occur to people to play out an event like this had they not been aware of the fact that they would be a global celebrity, be discussed for the next 10 years, be the subject of a Michael Moore movie etc etc etc.
Not saying they wouldn't off themselves anyway as we hope they would, just saying the media fuels these events.