Damn kids these days...

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PMC wrote:

What drives a fourteen year old to go to school and execute eight people before turning the gun on himself?  Surely we should be looking at what it is in our society that drives people commit mass murder.  It's happened it places like Dunblaine, Hungerford (in the UK) etc so it's not necessarily a phenomena experienced in nations where gun control is limited.

The clues were all there'
School shooter depicted as deeply disturbed, ignored teen

a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression and suicidal tendencies in a psychiatric ward, taking the antidepressant Prozac

He was estranged from many family members,
had a strained relationship with his paternal grandfather he killed at the start of Monday's rampage.
His father committed suicide in 1997.
maternal grandfather died  
automobile accident killed a cousin and left Weise's mother partly paralyzed and brain damaged.
Hated his mother
 

sketched gruesome scenes of armed warriors

had been removed from the school where he gunned down most of his victims Monday.

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  Capt. Dewayne Dow of the tribal police told a group of parents, teachers and staff at a three-hour school board meeting that authorities believe as many as 20 students were involved.

One law enforcement official said the FBI believes that as many as four students -- including gunman Jeff Weise and Louis Jourdain, a classmate arrested Sunday -- were directly involved in planning an attack on Red Lake High School, and well over a dozen others may have heard about the plot.