You know, I was reflecting on Columbine the other day.
So I read some of the testimony by the "Jocks" that the two Columbine killers specifically targeted.
They whiled on about how if you didn't like someone and wanted them to go away, you'd tease them.
I noted that there was no immediate way "out" for either of the two killers, one whom was psychopathic and the other who was manic depressive.
It made me wonder, if a person really has no way out, they're forced to either endure it or take action.
I realized then this:
It often takes two to start a fight.
Does that condone or excuse the Columbine killers? Not the slightest.
But ask yourselves this:
After Columbine did we:
1) Increase mental healthcare and awareness for at-risk teenagers?
2) Do away with the social stratification of high schools (break down the special privileges, etc for the Jocks, etc?)
3) Create a method for teenagers to reliably report bullying and deal with it, going so far as to conduct formal investigations?
No.
We did not.
Points 1-3 all disappeared, like the fashion craze for a Furby, in a matter of months.
So, I conjecture this:
...
No matter how much we agonize over the recent massacre, Nothing Will Change.
Why?
Because everyone is bought into an either/or situation of guns, mental healthcare, budgets and political alliances.
Some people reject any attempt at regulation, fearing it is "blaming" their weapons. Others rail about the "fiscal cliff" while targeting the weak, the helpless, the hopeless.
Schools will continue to live in a boom-bust economy of bonds and starvation rations, all while responding to a demand for "security" instead of a demand for raising their communities.
Nothing will change.
Because our politics of "Who gets the #1" seat overrides a holistic, gradient-based solution that addresses mental health, weapon regulation and proper responsible upkeep, tax collection and redevelopment of dying communities.
The mentally ill will continue to be untreated, with the right to refuse treatment even if there is prior criminal history, the schools will continue to cut back on education and thus hire substandard teachers along with substandard materials to "save money" (while ironically getting bonds that come with a provision of "spend it or lose it"), and guns will be easy to obtain from relaxed gun-restriction States.
So I read some of the testimony by the "Jocks" that the two Columbine killers specifically targeted.
They whiled on about how if you didn't like someone and wanted them to go away, you'd tease them.
I noted that there was no immediate way "out" for either of the two killers, one whom was psychopathic and the other who was manic depressive.
It made me wonder, if a person really has no way out, they're forced to either endure it or take action.
I realized then this:
It often takes two to start a fight.
Does that condone or excuse the Columbine killers? Not the slightest.
But ask yourselves this:
After Columbine did we:
1) Increase mental healthcare and awareness for at-risk teenagers?
2) Do away with the social stratification of high schools (break down the special privileges, etc for the Jocks, etc?)
3) Create a method for teenagers to reliably report bullying and deal with it, going so far as to conduct formal investigations?
No.
We did not.
Points 1-3 all disappeared, like the fashion craze for a Furby, in a matter of months.
So, I conjecture this:
...
No matter how much we agonize over the recent massacre, Nothing Will Change.
Why?
Because everyone is bought into an either/or situation of guns, mental healthcare, budgets and political alliances.
Some people reject any attempt at regulation, fearing it is "blaming" their weapons. Others rail about the "fiscal cliff" while targeting the weak, the helpless, the hopeless.
Schools will continue to live in a boom-bust economy of bonds and starvation rations, all while responding to a demand for "security" instead of a demand for raising their communities.
Nothing will change.
Because our politics of "Who gets the #1" seat overrides a holistic, gradient-based solution that addresses mental health, weapon regulation and proper responsible upkeep, tax collection and redevelopment of dying communities.
The mentally ill will continue to be untreated, with the right to refuse treatment even if there is prior criminal history, the schools will continue to cut back on education and thus hire substandard teachers along with substandard materials to "save money" (while ironically getting bonds that come with a provision of "spend it or lose it"), and guns will be easy to obtain from relaxed gun-restriction States.
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