The Call from the School

I have school age children.  Yes, I'm bummed beyond belief about some psycho open firing on his own mother and innocents.  However, the Bored Moms on Prozac Committee is not helping things.

Back in 2001 we had 9-11.  Yes.  It was a tragedy.  However, the schools went overboard with drawing attention to it.  At the time I had a first grader.  The onsite "grief counselors" and such only made things worse.  To this day what my kid remembers about 9-11 was that they played with red-white-and-blue dixie cups and made the design of an American flag.  They could have done that easily WITHOUT the attached tragedy.  It was a big, sad deal because we MADE it a big deal. 

Now I get a call from the school about Friday's shooting.  The onsite "grief counselors" and other do-gooders are on stand by and seeking kids whom they think need their ordained wisdom to get them through this horrible tragedy.

Yes, it was a tragedy.  Yes, it SUCKS.  Stop drawing attention to it!  We are only enforcing our kids to be frightened and paranoid.  There is no way to completely prevent something like this happening regardless of how many "visitor passes" the front office issues.  Think about it.  They would have issued a visitor pass to the shooter because his mother was an employee.

From the limited information I know about this, I blame the mother.  Who in the hell would purchase guns with an unstable kid?  Who needs an assault rifle in suburban Connecticut?   There's the prevention right THERE.  Common sense would dictate that if an emotionally troubled teen requested mom to purchase guns, the first call should have been to a psychiatrist rather than a trip to purchase murder machines.  .....and that mom was a teacher???.....  I think she was whacked-out more than her son.