Shooting in Roseburg

As promised, here's the rest of the story.

Suspect in school shooting charged

EDWARD WALSH and DAVID AUSTIN

edwardwalsh@news.oregonian.com

davidaustin@news.oregonian.com

Despite Roseburg, school violence is down

Steven Carter

stevencarter@news.oregonian.com

These were the stories that appeared in the Oregonian plus this Editorial;

Another skinny boy with a grudge and a gun

And here is my letter to them all:

Re: Shooting in Roseburg

You're all missing the point, and asking the wrong questions.
Let's examine the five "Ws".

WHY did he choose a gun as his weapon of choice to settle this dispute? Why not just a fist or a baseball bat?

WHERE did he get access to a gun and where did the idea come from to use the gun? A friend? A relative? Video games? Paint Ball games?

WHEN did he get it into his head to show up at school with a loaded gun? That morning or had he been brooding about the idea for quite some time?

WHO else knew about his tendency towards violence? Or was this the first indication of violent behavior?

WHAT are we, parents, going to do about it? All you could talk about was the heightened security at the schools when the problem is not to put a band-aid on the wound but go to the source of the problem. Violence is tolerated without any checks or balances all around us from the nightly news that hones in on drive-by shootings, to violent video games to Paint Ball. The bottom line is that the security businesses are getting fat as well as the video game makers.