This situation seems to be nothing more than high-profile posturing to give off the illusion that this and all cases like this are under control while the statistics scream the very opposite.
I'd be willing enough to agree that any situation in which a student threatens the safety of anyone - especially in exceptionally tragic ways like we've witnessed in Columbine and the VT shootings - they should be pulled from society until a proper psychological examination and threat assessment is done and they are determined to be fit for normal schooling.
But there's no denying the fact that most high school and college students go though points of depression - some of which even consider suicide. Between the stories of hazing, rapes, alcohol/substance abuse, STD transmission...the educational system simply does not work towards producing healthy and balanced individuals. The school system can't be solely to blame for all of these problems but adjusting it to equip students with good and proper coping mechanisms would be a good start.
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How many of you out there get off on reading stuff exactly like what this kid wrote....or viewing the blood and gore films? What's the difference between this and Grindhouse?
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I think most would agree that it's not the art that creates the culture but the opposite and there simply is nothing wrong with forms of art that seem to justify or even glorify the loss of human life when it's very obviously not the art itself that causes one to lose the distinction between fantasy and reality.
It'll always be easier to tear it down than to build it up but that's just my $.2