hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

I got this one in my email newsfeed a while back. This shed a little bit of light on some of those school shootings.


Annals of Public Safety October 19, 2015 Issue
The New Yorker
Thresholds of Violence
How school shootings catch on.
By Malcolm Gladwell

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence

It's a bit of a long read but it will be worth it.

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, Colorado

A great article Hondo, and really makes one stop and think.

Steven Seward Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

"It is a bit of a long read." You weren't kidding Hondo! But I agree with Jake, a very interesting concept. A long term r**t phenomena. :thumbup:

hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

Yes it does. If only these kids were into a different kind of history to start with.

Schroeder: “Do you have brothers and sisters?”

LaDue: “Yes, I have a sister. She’s one year older than me.”

Schroeder: “O.K. She goes to school too?”

LaDue: “Yes.”

Schroeder: “She’s a senior?”

LaDue: “She is.”

Schroeder: “O.K. So you would have done this stuff while she was at school as well?”

LaDue: “I forgot to mention a detail. Before that day, I was planning to dispose of my family too.”

I'm inclined to say that most of us would be clueless that this kind of stuff is going through this kids head. It's difficult for me to wrap my head around it. That and most of the sociological analysis that it throughout the article.

I mean what happens here? Kids just tooling along through life and snaps then decides to be the next Columbine? Chilling!