It's been shown, statistically, that vigilance committees are more effective than lawyers and judges. Look at your gold rushes. Armed men kept each other in check. Firearm free areas are a safety hazard, because anyone can bring a firearm into them, and all you have are a bunch of sitting ducks. Fish in a barrel. If Darwin is right, anyway, then the people who are too stupid to have guns will take care of themselves, anyway. Still, it's easy to look back and say it should be this way, or if we did that... Hindsight is 20/20 and all those cliches. Really, we never know what would have happened if someone there had been armed. There still would have been a great tragedy, and maybe the "kill count" wouldn't have been as high, but really, we'd all be harping on another aspect of the incident.
The word for it is psychopathy, which unfortunately isn't in the current DSM. Antisocial Personality Disorder is what they call it now. That's the more polite term that they beat into our heads in psychology classes, and it is listed in the DSM. They are characterized by a lack of empathy, and do display peculiar brain scans. They also make up 75% of all inmates, and represent as much as a quarter of the population, depending on who you depend on for your statistics. (Without a Concience is a great book to check out if you want to spew random facts about psycho/sociopaths, though it is a bit outdated.)
Still, a complete lack of empathy does not typicaly correlate with the massive violent crimes. They tend to relate more towards schizophrenia, paranoid dillusions, and a variety of other interesting psychosis. I am inclined to believe that there was something more to it than "this AZN N1NJ4 played Video Gamez and was a sociopath." Though, last I read, they were not reporting that they were certain it was just one boy, at that.
They already do, here, at least (in Alaska). The schools have their own e-mail system that students can use, and access to all other e-mail services is pretty well blocked. Wouldn't want schools to be responsible for students stumbling into something they shouldn't. Someone might sue. Anyway, I'd normally be against this sort of thing, but my mother was a librarian in a school (and is now a second grade teacher) and spends a lot of time monitering the computers. Books are just as useful as the internet, and a lot more reliable. That more people don't use books instead of the internet is ridiculous. A law like this (however poorly conceived) will help that.
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It's been shown, statistically, that vigilance committees are more effective than lawyers and judges. Look at your gold rushes. Armed men kept each other in check. Firearm free areas are a safety hazard, because anyone can bring a firearm into them, and all you have are a bunch of sitting ducks. Fish in a barrel. If Darwin is right, anyway, then the people who are too stupid to have guns will take care of themselves, anyway.
Still, it's easy to look back and say it should be this way, or if we did that...
Hindsight is 20/20 and all those cliches. Really, we never know what would have happened if someone there had been armed. There still would have been a great tragedy, and maybe the "kill count" wouldn't have been as high, but really, we'd all be harping on another aspect of the incident.
They already do, here, at least (in Alaska). The schools have their own e-mail system that students can use, and access to all other e-mail services is pretty well blocked. Wouldn't want schools to be responsible for students stumbling into something they shouldn't. Someone might sue. Anyway, I'd normally be against this sort of thing, but my mother was a librarian in a school (and is now a second grade teacher) and spends a lot of time monitering the computers. Books are just as useful as the internet, and a lot more reliable. That more people don't use books instead of the internet is ridiculous. A law like this (however poorly conceived) will help that.