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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering if school administrators will be also arrested for allowing Colt to be relentlessly bullied?[/quote]
Evidence of this? He had only been in that school a few weeks.[/quote]

Even still there are many kids who are bullied and don’t shoot up schools. There have been bullies all through history and school shootings are a relatively new phenomenon. [/quote]

That's true, but--what kids do provides an example other kids end up following (this does not just apply to kids). Just like suicide can have a contagious effect.

Also, a Homeland Defense database going back to 1970 lists 21 school shootings that year. 
The database includes a variety of incidents, and sometimes the incidents have involved adults with disputes or attempted burglaries or other crimes by people not connected to the school, a few literal stray bullets including bullets from someone target shooting, accidents with guns in schools (including an ROTC student cleaning his gun),there's gang and racial disputes, but there are also things like students shooting principals who have disciplined or expelled them, gun suicides in schools.

Found another research paper--There are actually a couple of known incidents in the 1800s--1853 (sibling of a student shot the principal who disciplined the student) and 1890 (10 year old girl shot by her male classmate for tattling). Anyway, the frequency has increased but also the lethality. In the 20th century there were more non-fatal injuries than in the 21st. It's the proliferation of weapons and the lethality of the guns kids can get. According to that paper kids who have carried out these shootings have said it was very easy to get guns from parents or grandparents and that if it hadn't been, they probably would not have done it at all.

As for the argument that "many people experience X and don't do Y," that's true, but on the other hand there is a spectrum of results that X will have on people (and in this kid's case, it wouldn't just be bullying, there were apparently years of family upheaval and dysfunction). compare it to disease, say Covid. Millions  of people have contracted Covid--let's say people under 65 without comorbidities. Most get through it with no permanent effect. Some have complications but recover fully. Some have complications and recover but have long-term health effects. Some die. Just because most recover fully doesn't mean it didn't cause permanent harm or death to those for whom the outcomes were much worse. This is always the flaw with that argument. (I'm not saying human agency doesn't exist at all, this is an analogy)[/quote]

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