But officer, it’s just a story…

From Wired News: <a href=”http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60144,00.html” target=_blank”>http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60144,00.html

Poor bastard. When did American’s lose the right to free expression? Brian Robertson, from Oklahoma, wrote a short story detailing a plan for an armed invasion of his school and was promptly charged with “Planning or Threatening Violent Act”, despite the fact police did not find any weapons, explosives or any other evidence that he was actually planning to raid his school.

According to the Wired News article a number of students have been either suspended or arrested (or both) across the US i the wake of the numerous school shootings of the last few years. And in typical US style it was decided that locking up kids that might decide sometime in the future to commit a violent act was the best solution to the problem. In other words, doing things arse end first.

Was anyone curious as to why kids were killing their class mates in the first place? What was their motivation? Have they shown violent tendencies in the past? Were they anti social? Did they show signs of depression? Did they show signs of parental neglect? Signs of drug use? How were their grades? Were there consistent bad behaviour? Did they look ok?

Maybe the problem is that kids are not getting adequate support from their school. Maybe schools should provide better care for their students. Maybe parents are should pay more attention to their children.

MAYBE KIDS SHOULDN’T HAVE ACCESS TO GUNS.

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