> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> ...Sometimes you might be able to identify a high(er) risk kid in
> advance in terms of genetics. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes
> out
> with the San Diego perpetrator that "Oh...his Aunt Jane was
> depressed,
> spent time in a hospital." Or if one/both parent(S) used drugs and
> alcohol (why the divorse?) Now a family history of problems does
> not
> mean one's child is going to shoot anybody! but if depression runs
> in
> your family, you should defnitely watch your teen more carefully
> for
> danger signs.
I agree. If you see the danger signs, then you should watch them more
carefully. You see, I live in San Diego, about 20 miles away from where
the shooting took place, and I have heard interviews of some of the
students that they hope this does not turn into another witch-hunt with
trying to find something wrong with the shooter. Descriptions of him was
that he was always well-mannered, did not do badly in school or anything
like that, it just seemed like he proverbially snapped. A quote by one of
his classmates went something like "I hope that they don't find a
swastika scribbled on one of his notebooks, because then every
armchair-expert will come out saying that he was a neo-nazi racist!".
IMO, you can enforce more and more stringent gun laws as you like, as the
wave of pundits will suggest, and perhaps that will keep the guns out of
their hands,(however, there are always ways to bypass the laws!)but that
still will not address the root problem of *why* these kids are doing it.
Patrick
Patrick Schlichtenmyer
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