http://thoughtcatalog.com/anne-gus/2014 ... p-schools/We live in a world where:
Boys aren’t taught to not shoot up schools.
Boys think they have the right to grab a gun and shoot up a school whenever they want to.
Policemen are way too investigative and ask too many questions of witnesses rather than punishing the suspected boy immediately.
Where victims are blamed because they bullied the shooters.
Where many are shamed into not reporting a suspected upcoming school shootings.
Where school shootings are normalized and excused in pop culture and media.
Where shooting up schools is glamorized.
Where the definition of a school shooting is too narrow. It doesn’t have to be a semi-automatic rifle, if you use firecrackers or a nerf guns, it’s still a school shooting.
Where schools shootings are trivialized. “Boys will be boys”.
Where explicit school shooting jokes are allowed to be made by comedians.
Where we teach students to be careful rather than teach boys not to shoot up schools.
Where we still think school shootings are only being committed by psychotic and mentally unstable teenage boys, when everyday, normal men do it just as often.
Where we still think school shootings are preventable, something that puts blame to the victims.
Where we still don’t always consider our friends, sons and fathers as potential school shooters.
Where we try to prevent bullying as a precaution, something that puts blame on the victims.
Where tasteless jokes such as, “Your room is a mess, it looks like Columbine in there” is common jargon among boys.
Where we still think school shootings are rare events, the result of mental instability or evil, rather than the result of a School Shooting culture that teaches boys that it is okay to shoot up schools.
