Another shooting…Why are schools the targets of mass shooters?

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University police are usually pretty numerous. So it’s not “gun free” bullsht. Do people hate the educated?

Leopard23 · Accepted Answer

Soft targets. They nearly always pick somewhere that there are a lot of crowded unarmed people they can murder before being stopped. More than anything they seem inspired by previous mass killers. I think this mass shooter wasn't so good with a gun and picked the wrong college.

That Brevnik guy in Norway he shot 77 on that Island, killed 8 with a car bomb and wounded over 300 people. The Las Vegas shooter at a country music festival killed 61 people, with 867 wounded (413+ by gunfire or shrapnel). The Nice attacker killed 87 people with a lorry, injured 319. Shows what is possible.

Fortunately he didn't make nail bombs or use a flamethrower. I think that if one of these guys starts using a flamethrower others will follow because they are so easy to build. I think eventually there will be the perfect storm of a mass attack by an individual or individuals that plan an attack out well and will kill a lot of people possibly using guns but also possibly large vehicles, bombs, sarin gas in the subway, grenades, shooting an airliner down, derailing a train, releasing small pox something real bad. Like can you imagine if the Las Vegas shooter had got his hands on an mg42 firing into a packed crowd with a weapon that killed 2000 us troops on D-day.

bolverk · Accepted Answer

They are soft targets, with many targets of opportunity, and entries and exits. University/school police are usually not trained up to deal with mass shootings as the person doing the shooting usually knows the campus as well if not better than the police, and it would not matter if all handguns and 'AR 15' style rifles were banned as a.22LR can be just as lethal, if someone wants to go on a killing spree the will, if they cannot gain access to a firearm the will use some thing else, a knife, hammer, screwdriver, if you check FBI stats you'll find more people killed with the last three than all firearms deaths, and the vast majority of those deaths are suicides.

Aerissa_Jade · Accepted Answer

They are going for area's with a chance of a large concentrated groups of people. It could be schools, or stores... but classrooms are a great way to trap people. Many classrooms have one way in and one way out. If a shooter is in the hallway, the choices are take your chances running by them or hunkering down and waiting for them to come to your room.

This is why having people armed in a room is a good idea, IF they get that point. It is not a good idea for armed people to go hunting down a shooter, as that would interfere with police knowing who is the actual shooter.

If guns were outlawed, these same people would simply pull a Nice France type attack, find a truck or car and a long line on say Black Friday or a movie theater and run over dozens of people. They will find a way.

Daniela1982 · Accepted Answer

I guess they should start arming the teachers and students so they can defend themselves instead of being lambs at a slaughter. . Come get some sucker! Picture courtesy of The Walking Dead

mstbooblover · Answer

There may be lot of reasons imaginable, but one I'm sure plays an important part, is very bad experiences at school. Keep in mind it's nearly always the same persons to be bullied more than their turn, and later in life, when things go wrong, and a fragile psychology playing a part, those people being pushed mentally against the wall, will clearly be prone to take revenge before often killing themselves. Just saying.

genericname85 · Answer

because schools foster an environment in which people go crazy. I don't know if you know dr. k. he's a Harvard psychatrist who made a youtube channel where he's dealing with more and less prevalent issues to help people find a solution for their problems

if you really care to understand, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6JjRS4rz7A8

you don't have to watch the entire thing but this will open your eyes as to why that shit happens.

so very in a nutshell: what makes shootings happen is lack of community and lack of counselling/guidance.

noohair · Answer

Well, I would blame Geraldo Rivera first. In 1972 he did an exposé on Willobrook. It was a mental facility. What happened was a move to reform and close many state facilities. The unintended consequences are sick people without treatment. Add in the entertainment industry that glorifies violence, and legal abortion, and we have a demented culture that see violence as a problem solving tool. Society does not value the concept of life as sacred. Lives are sacred, but life is not. Welcome to what we have now.

WindAtMyBack · Answer

"Why are schools the targets of mass shooters?"

Because the media and people like you keep talking about it. A fad can't become a fad if nobody knows about it. It would never even occur to half these people if it wasn't advertised so much.

ShadezMcgee · Answer

You are grasping at straws. Schools, churches, public areas that are designated gun free zones are the very reason they get targeted frequently by these individuals. It has nothing to do with hating educated people, it is a matter of exploiting opportunity to cause as much chaos and damage without being stopped quick.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

If they're not students who already got easy access to it, I believe it's because... a school usually just has two kinds of people in there, Students and Teachers. There are no guards there. On top of that they're all in classrooms, they only have one exit, easy pickings.

But often they're students, they go to the only place they are familiar with that also has a lot of people, schools.

jshm2 · Answer

It's where they are guaranteed to get a good kill rate against people they have a grudge against.

You rarely get people attacking army barracks or police stations - regardless of the wrong they may feel either has done to them. Instead they will go and try kill their kids instead.

Not so much for it being a "soft target," but it will cause them more pain to lose their loved ones.

Jersey2 · Answer

If you bothered to read, his mother died in 2020 and according to father he became more and more bitter along with shutting off from the world. But why read when it can be inflammatory as a post. He lived nearby so he went there because there were a lot of people; ie, targets.

Tomisworthless · Answer

Well if your analysis is that people hate educated people I would then argue it’s rather they are pretentious self absorbed pricks whose shits don’t stink and they bully others and claim victim hood simultaneously. That’s probably why they get shot at

LiamJHayden · Answer

It is a "Gun Free" zone. "Gun free" never excludes law enforcement from carrying. But because it is "gun free" a suicidal psycho can hit it and only have to worry about campus cops, not random students or instructors who might have CCW's.

Adaeva · Answer

Because almost all mass shooting are false flag operations to get the public to accept gun control. Mass shooting in school are thought to be the most effective in obtaining gun control.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Because we are an insanely violent society. Schools are soft targets and killing students causes a lot of grief. People who commit these acts are trying to create as much grief as possible.

Drumlin2001 · Answer

I'd imagine it's the place people are coming of age, not quite in control of their emotions, rife with bullying and cliques, people feel disillusioned and if they have easy access to firearms some just snap

Stoner710 · Answer

Gun free zones are the most obvious target. Armed guides are necessary to protect young folk. Think we protect our money far greater than we protect our kids.

NaultD · Answer

What other place do you go 5 out of 7 days every week?

Twalli · Answer

If the shooter is a student then the student was probably mercilessly teased. In no way does that excuse their actions, but it makes sense why they'd target their school. I mean Columbine was because of that.

exitseven · Answer

lots of unarmed people and plenty of news coverage.

Josssef · Answer

Give all teachers hk416's or g3's 3 mags for each and see if them little' bitchass asocial creeps can do it again.

Fuentes · Answer

Michigan is a third world state I don't even know how they even keep a school there, with tons of 5150's like this hanging around

Anonymous · Answer

Easy targets, weak parenting and pathetic gun laws.

Anonymous · Answer

Hmm... How do you know the shooter isn't "educated"? Is it because he's black? You, sir, are a racist!

Anonymous · Answer

They know that children and liberal teachers can't defend themselves.

Anonymous · Answer

Easy targets because nobody has a gun to defend themselves

Anonymous · Answer

Because prescription drugs are fucked and have shit side effects and big pharma refuses to take accountability

Anonymous · Answer

You mean the MSU shooting, right?

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Because they are gun free zones.

msc545 · Answer

Kids and teacher don't shoot back

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Lots of people around to kill.

MadAndBankrupt · Answer

America is a terrorist nation

grega239 · Answer

Kids are easy targets

call_me_scar · Answer

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