Imagine you have (1) a system that fails people so utterly that they decide a mass shooting is a commiserate response, and (2) occurrences of this have grown at

Imagine you have (1) a system that fails people so utterly that they decide a mass shooting is a commiserate response, and (2) occurrences of this have grown at a worrying rate from almost zero over the past 30 years, to current levels. This is a symptom of severe underlying institutional failure. Shouldn’t we address why we’re failing our children so spectacularly, such that our institutions are literally turning them into mass murderers at a historically unprecedented rate? The gun is ancillary. The fact that it’s happening at all should be a klaxon wake-up call for institutions, mental health experts, educators, parents, and society. Instead, we’re screaming about magazine sizes and the types of guns used by children driven to mass murder. Like, uh, maybe ask yourselves why Jeremy is so disaffected? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(song) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(song) > After coming into class late that morning, [Jeremy] Delle was told to get an admittance slip from the school office. He left the classroom, and returned with a .357 Magnum revolver. Delle walked to the front of the classroom, announced "Miss, I got what I really went for", put the barrel of the firearm in his mouth, and pulled the trigger before his teacher or classmates could react. Admittance slips. In-school suspension. Truancy laws. Zero-tolerance. Schools have become inescapable hell-holes for children that don’t fit the cookie-cutter institutional mold, but we’d apparently rather argue about the magazine size those children use once a vanishingly small percentage of them finally just lose their shit.