Elaine-9-Shooting

I was asking myself why there are so many shootings in schools.

In my opinion, one of the reasons is the great attention that media gives to these cases. It motivates others perpetrators to do the same, considering that it is a way to attract attention, and it is what people with mental problems usually want: attention!


Of course they have other ways to call attention to themselves, but having a gun motivates them to do such a thing. And they usually choose schools because it was the place that they might have been bullied, so they hold a grudge against it.

In some cases, I believe that relatives and close friends can even notice a weird behavior in the potential shooter, but they won't do anything to avoid it, after all they have no idea how serious the case is, not to mention that we never expect that a close person to us would do something of this gravity.

So, I believe that the only way to avoid these shootings is disarming ordinary people. If we have the police to protect us, there is no point of having a gun at home. Considering that is many cases, the home gun is not as useful as people thing that it would be.