Grandmother's actions prevent a School Shooting
With all the talk and speculation about gun control and everything else, in the wake of the Florida school shooting, we have a story that almost slipped through the cracks about another, potential, school shooting that was averted and stopped because of the actions of a Grandmother. It had to be very difficult to turn in your grandson but it would have been much more difficult to just sluff it off and dismiss it thinking it surely couldn't happen only to hear about it actually happening when you could have done something about it.
Here you have a grandmother who read disturbing information that led her to believe her grandson was close to doing a school shooting and she turned him into the police who also, after considering the evidence, arrested him and averted what could have been yet another senseless loss of innocent life. This is how you stop these things from happening yet the media gives it little coverage and actually, most likely, only covered it due to the close timing of the Florida school shooting. How about let's make this Grandmother a National Hero and give her the type attention, even more, than we give these school shooters who get posted all over the media as people discect these horrendous events. I say highlight those that prevent these things and let's give them some credit for their actions, as difficult as they must have been.
In the case of the Florida shooter there was someone who thought enough to enlighten law enforcement but unfortunately, there didn't appear to be the follow-up that, in retrospect, should have happened. All kinds of people are now saying they knew this guy was off and potentially was this type of person but it seems only one person actually alerted authorities only to have them dismiss it as not having enough merit to warrant continual followup and action. Now we discover that this teen was on depression and mental illness meds and so many other shooters were also found to be on these.
Although it's not popular to think or say so I also believe the secular teachings of our schools are also partly to blame. We have removed God and Morality from schools and classes to the point where we only teach evolution and that there is no special significance to human life but that human life, like all other life, evolved from some accidental occurrence that happened so long ago between two molecules or atoms and from it life evolved. Human life is considered no more significant than that of trees or of insects for they all go back to the same origins. I'm not suggesting to teach Bible as they once did in the 1950's' or to make schools teach theology but at least give some acknowledgment that there are other theories of how mankind got here and that there are those who feel and believe that human life is an exceptional thing coming from a creator and not just from accident. But then that is my own opinion as to what I believe may help. One thing is for certain though and that is these school shootings are a contemporary thing and wasn't even on the radar back in the 1950's and through the 1970's so it's not totally without merit to at least ask what has changed in that time period.