Originally Posted by
MichiganWolf
The US has had 18 school shootings in 2018 alone. You have to go back 20 years to find 20 school shootings in the rest of the world. Seems a uniquely American problem.
I think there are three problems:
1. Stigma and lack of access to mental health services. Insurance is expensive in the states and not all insurance companies cover mental health services. There’s also a big stigma surrounding it in the US, causing people to not seek out services.
2. Guns - no two ways about it. To do nothing about it after all these years is insanity. Government needs to allow the CDC research it, but that is currently not allowed for some reason. I’m not in favor of a full ban or anything like that, but current policies must be looked at. Gotta get big money out of politics, from profit driven donors.
3. Education - there’s probably a reason why these happen so frequently at schools. Kids are not getting access to services they need, feel alienated, lack social skills etc etc. I work in a school and see it every day. The way some of these teachers talk about students is despicable. Not all teachers, lots of good ones. But they struggle with things outside of curriculum.