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So once again a kid goes nuts and tries to kill people in a school. Yeah it happens these days, mainly because the news makes such a big fucking deal about it. Frankly if they didn't report it as "news" no one would care and kids would probably find another way of attacking each other, probably off school premises (where, after all - it's a lot easier to do).

So what now? I know! Force all the kids in school to go through searches and metal detectors because statistically if one kid goes apeshit on Monday, you know a good half-dozen will be doing it on Tuesday.

Yeah. Bullshit.

If anything the right idea would be to mitigate the trauma to the school by having as little police intrusion as possible. Will the kids recover better by being treated like potential criminals when their classmate that did go postal never was?

The stupidity of buttoning up the school the next day does absolutely damn nothing. It doesn't prevent, it's doesn't protect, it doesn't heal. It's simply an overreaction by the people who should have been on the alert in the first place and an attempt to exert authority over kids whom they wouldn't have cared for just one day ago.