Comments on: Do you think pressures on students today is causing them to become shooters?

By: kathy_is_a_nurse

kathy_is_a_nurse — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:01:59 +0000

I think it is more a question that kids are not taught how to deal with pressure from an early age. They are so protected now that they are never allowed to experience real challenges and "failure". They are not allowed to compete because it could damage their little psyches. So when they finally get into a competitive environment they don’t have the coping skills to deal with it.

Given that reality, services such as you describe are probably necessary. But it is rather like closing the barn door after the horse is out. Instead of fixing the problems that contribute to this condition, we are putting a bandaid on the end result.
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By: hotel22000

hotel22000 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:11:59 +0000

I COMPLETELY DISSAGREE. THIS RABBIT HOLE GOES MUCH DEEPER. ALTHOUGH ALL YOUR IDEAS ARE WELL INTENDED AND WOULD'NT HURT, THESE ARE VOLUNTARY SERVICES OFFERED TO PEOPLE WHO POTENTIALLY ALREADY SUFFER MENTAL DISTRESS AND WOULD PROBABLY NEVER TAKE ADVANTAGES THE EFFORTS YOU MENTIONED.
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By: burning brightly

burning brightly — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:59:59 +0000

No its a individual desire to inflict upon others a punishment, and it is triggered by some thing that is mostly never obvious until after the act no amount of extra spending or more staff can predict that.~~
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By: bebop_groove_bonanza

bebop_groove_bonanza — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:33:59 +0000

I don't think its the pressure as much as it is the isolation. People are so separated from each other, even when they are in the same room. The proliferation of cellphones, internet combined with the hectic schedules causes people to be so wrapped up with themselves that they neglect the others around them. Then those younger people feel insignifigant and lash out in the worst way.
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By: Karma

Karma — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:53:59 +0000

No. Are you kidding? If anything, kids have less pressure than they did 75 years ago. With so many technological advances they have it much, much easier. Back then, not only did kids have to attend school, but they had to tend farms, assist in helping raise their brothers and sisters, and perhaps help bring in some much needed money to the family. You know what? Things were drastically more stable back then. They didn’t have time to fall into states of depression, or pre-meditate a massacre, there was work to be done.

These days, kids are practically having easy lives handed to them on silver platters. Perhaps that’s the problem. The decline of society and the value of hard work. You know what they used to say, "Idle hands are the devil’s tools." It just may be true.
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By: GeeGee

GeeGee — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:24:59 +0000

No, I don't think pressure is the reason. as the pressure today is no greater than in past generations. The pressures are different, but no greater. Perhaps there is always a percentage of the population that will break down and react with violence, and since the population in general keeps growing, this % of violent person also obviously translates into more people, and that accounts for the increased number of incidents. Social programs are great but healing begins at home and people need to nuture their own.
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By: Donald J

Donald J — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:17:59 +0000

Wrong.

Too many are given counseling and medication and excuses for their dysfunction. More of them need their asses beat at an early age to break them from being spoiled and psycho little whack-jobs.

Liberal political correctness is to blame.
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By: JT

JT — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:35:59 +0000

That is ridiculous! They are millions of kids all over the world who have pressure on them to do well while going through bad times, they don’t line up their fellow students and shoot them one by one!
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I went to 4 different secondary schools with most pupils from rough backgrounds…

By: Saint Lucipher

Saint Lucipher — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:06:59 +0000

What causes shootings at school goes back to bad parenting of the student. School shootings were pretty much non existant years ago and the only thing that changed was single parent families and bad parenting
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By: wildmlwilson

wildmlwilson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:50:59 +0000

No. The pressure in colleges is not anywhere near historic levels endured by previous generations or by immigrants. The problem is that some people feel that the actions they commit won't have consequences to them personally. Many of these shooters commit suicide because they have fallen for the belief that once they are dead, it is all over. However, One who died and then returned, has shown all mankind that there is a judgement after this.
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