I suppose I would have heard it all over LJ...

[azurelunatic]

When two nutjobs shot up their high school some years ago, my high school best friend predicted that in a year, no one would remember the incident.

I hope no one decided to commemorate this in any sort of inappropriate way.

I've been thinking about the necessity of remembering this day, with the intent of never letting it happen again. Music and clothes and gaming are rarely the problem. Isolation and bullying are the problems, and it needs to stop.

In high school, I was the one everyone thought would snap violently. That was before Columbine. That was before CTY. Gods know, without CTY, without the library_monkeys, I might have...

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[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

There's been a fair amount of discussion in the media here about keeping students safe by keeping weapons out of schools. That makes me feel like people have missed a big lesson that they should have learned from what happened at Columbine. Weapons are a symptom. Checking for them is not getting at the root of the problem. Preventing it from happening again means preventing students from feeling the feelings that led to it, or at least helping them deal with the feelings when they start to feel them.

[azurelunatic]

*sigh*

Mopping the floor without patching the roof.

[wibbble]

My personal favourite analogy of that type, which I usually use in the context of the mis-treatment of psychological illnesses by the medical profession in this country, is that it's like giving painkillers to someone who has a massive wound on their arm.

It takes away the pain, but at the same time they'll still bleed to death.