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After reading all these posts, I ask myself, what could have been done to prevent this incident from happening. Not much. We all want to point the finger at someone for the premeditated actions the killer took. There are many factors involved in a case of this nature. We could blame his family for being disfunctional, the teachers or school principal for not being able to anticipate what he would do next, his psychologist, for not keeping him under strict observation, the gun dealer, the columbine shootings, video games, bulling, you name it. The truth of the matter is that noone could have imagined that it would turn out the way it did, till it actually happened. Afterthefact makes a good point. Putting the killer in the spotlight through media coverage, only gives the next one, who's still out there, a good reason to carry out the same type of murders, so that he/she can go down in history. We all have ideas of how this could have been prevented, but the fact is, it wasn't.
I'm afraid to say that it's inevitable that someone will eventually be punished for this,
when infact the killer himself was responsible for the actions he took.
EDIT: Have you guys noticed how the coverage of this dreadful news overshadows the 160 deaths that took place in Iraq yesterday?
How convenient.
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