How can we keep something like Columbine and the Virgina Tech tragedy from occurring again?

How can we, not only avoid but stop these things altogether from ever happening in the future?

How can we keep something like Columbine and the Virgina Tech tragedy from occurring again?
impossible
Reply:YOU CAN'T. **** happens, it has for ever and will until there are no more humans. Such is life!
Reply:Dot gov does not protect the people here. This guy is the end result of an abusive culture. These smaller sub cultures always create this type of event. V Tech had their chance to address the situation and did not get to the bottom of it. I was just in a debate about how someone like that could possibly have a business license. I can point to a source of this type of person right now and the police are "supporting business" and have no interest in vicious conduct against people. It will happen again.
Reply:Very rarely will I agree with what Bush says, but this time I agree.





Whenever we have second thoughts on a person's attitude, we should do what is right, investigate.





Don' just pass it off and let it ride.





I am quite sure that you will see more attention given now to the behavior pattern of students.





This will open up a whole new field of opportunity for teacher's assistants who will be trained and provide the needed insight as to the condition each student is in.





I can see this happening real soon.
Reply:Something can be done but I think that it would be really difficult. Schools should check the kid's lockers and backpacks, make psychological evaluation to students and put those thing that they have in airports and government offices where they can detect if you carry a gun, a knive or something harmful. Colleges should have to check in regulary the dorms of the students, put those things to detect guns and knives and make psychological evaluation of students.
Reply:sadly these things can not be avoided completely.....as long as people have access to guns we are never safe.........the only way to be safe is to ban guns or any weapons but we cant do thatbecause how will we protect ourselves against enemies
Reply:You can't. There will always be some with defective brains. This one used two pistols. McVay used explosives. Many are getting ideas from watching the News about strapping explosives to their bodies are blowing themselves up in a crowd.


Who would suspect a person in a big winter coat in a crowded hockey arena ?


If a person is known to have a few loose screws, nothing can be done unless, or until he breaks the law - - - - and then it's too late.
Reply:God-WE CANT. Thats like asking how can we keep a bank from being robbed again or a car from being stolen again. Crimes happen.


There is not no one thing that can be done to keep school or workplace shootings from happening. All of the metal detectors, all of the gun laws, all of that is not gonna be able to stop someone on a suicide mission.


Granted, there are things we can do to help protect schools, but to make them 100% safe-it will never happen.
Reply:I don't think there is much. I know someone who went to school with one of the kids from Columbine and he said even at 9 you knew there was something just not right about him. Kids don't feel like they fit in. Until people care more about others before something bad happens it will still happen.
Reply:Love and Humbless.
Reply:The answer, is you can't. If you try to take guns off the street, it will bring up issues with the constitution. Taking guns off the streets seems like the best way to prevent these things, were it not impossible. Even if people were not allowed to own a guns, people would smuggle them in from Mexico, and sell them on the street, like drugs. Police officers could be put on duty at all schools, but even a cop can get shot. There are two otherr problems with police officers being put on duty at schools, people would make a fuss that they shouldn't be put on duty at private schools, making them the new targets, and in universities like Virginia Tech, there are more than one building, over a hundred, so it would require many police officers to be on duty at universities. These tragedies are horrible, yet law enforcers d othe best they can to stop these things all together. Lock downs work for high schools and middle schools and elementary schools, but for universities, they would be a waste of time. These events sadden us, and enrage us, but there is not much we can do. No matter how hard we try, there are always psychotic lunatics that will go crazy, get a gun, and shoot people.
Reply:When any one person is neglected by all, they become depressive and moody. This causes further neglect because no one wants to be around that person, for fear of it affecting their own mood. Thus, the person is further ostracized. It becomes a cyclical effect, and eventually can lead to suicide barring action on anyone else's part.





As for the killing aspect, I believe that it occurs when certain people who are so far out of the social loop want to take away that feeling of loneliness before they die. They literally are killing others so that when they die, they are joined by others.





This sounds horrible, but it is the truth of what is going on. As this question will likely receive some answers condemming Cho as a Satanist and other terrible things, you will understand that it is people who do not care about others, that create those who turn to death as the final solution.





So in short, if this is to be prevented, people need to reach out to the loners and help them before it is too late. Sadly though, humanity and its tragic flaws will now allow this to occur.
Reply:Invoke the second ammendment, allow any person with a gun license to carry a firearm with them at all times. If someone is homicidal, they will think twice about going on a shooting rampage like VT and Columbine if the people they intend to kill are able to defend themselves.
Reply:We can't. They have occurred periodically since the 1950's; the first to galvanize the media was the Texas sniper - 41 years ago.