The past 19 school shooters, have obtained guns legally. In the future, I would like to see growing legislation to change this. The Parkland Shooter, Nikolas Cruz, had bought an AR-15 even though he had shown erratic  behavior and a want to kill people. Christopher Harper-Mercer killed nine people at Umpqua Community College with 14 guns he bought legally. We also need to have legislation on how to store guns, must be locked away somewhere, or locked in a separate shed, so that kids like Jaylen Ray Fryberg can’t get their hands on their fathers gun.

From the book, “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters”,there are three types of school shooters: the traumatized shooter, the psychopathic shooter, and the psychotic shooter.It says, “The traumatized shooters—they come from dysfunctional families, poverty, abuse in the home, a number of them were sexually abused outside the home, parents are poor, kids bounce around between mom to dad to grandma, sometimes they are in and out of foster care, there is no stability. And eventually, the rage and depression build. The other two types come from essentially stable and intact families. One type is the psychopathic, someone who is narcissistic, doesn’t care about other people, no empathy, no remorse, no respect for laws and regulations or authority, they are going to do what they feel like doing. They are often sadistic, so they get a thrill over having the power over life and death. ”

It is also important to teacher kids (high schoolers, not children) and teachers about behavioral signs someone might bring a firearm to school. Such signs include talking about a ‘hypothetical’ school shooting and attack-related behavior (such as stockpiling weapons and researching other shooters).

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/03/us/how-mass-shooters-got-their-guns.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/03/us/how-mass-shooters-got-their-guns.html