[Spirit100]

Mental health and media restrictions should be the focal points. Hats off to you NKY for proposing a solution and a way to fund it ( not sure if your suggestion would work ), however, this is the sort of dialogue and problem solving our country needs. Sad to know what we can do in a forum in a few days, would take the knuckleheads in DC weeks. :Thumbs: The mental health system in our country is a disaster. Throwing money and resources at it yes is needed...but it's going to require a lot of due diligence and restructuring. Privatization is and can be a good thing.

The media needs to reform it's ways in reporting tragedies. In less than 24 hrs. we knew everything except height and weight of perp and victims. Two days later we find out the perp was bullied, resulting in the Mom, home schooling him for much of his school career.

It was previously reported he killed both parents. Not true, the Dad is alive and well. Haven't heard much from him have we? Trying to gag the media would be comparable to root canal on a bull. It needs to happen, but isn't!

The media censorship is our own duty.....in our homes comes in the form of a mute button and a power on/off button. As well as open ended discussion with our kids. This is what we do have control over.

I agree with Judgement Day on the police details while school is in session. And having a select group of teachers trained and with access to a weapon in different areas throughout a school...I'm ok with as well!

Moral decay is an understatement. When a system rewards having kids out of wedlock entire generations are lost. When parents try on marriages like pairs of shoes, a society is going to have issues. Immediate gratification is rampant. God hasn't left the building. Too many people have left and stopped honoring God.

Thanks to two good parents with outstanding moral compasses, and a good supporting cast of teachers, mentors, and friends I'm working my hind off to provide my own family and friends a similar path. I'm confident you all are doing the same.

A lot more Mayberry and whole lot less CSI!

And hats off to all of you and your moral compasses. Solution driven dialogue is helping us heal...I share your anger and frustration, I also know it needs to subside into grief and peace eventually. To get there though we need to know steps have been taken to work towards this not happening again.

Zaga shared a good post on Friday which ended in and I'm paraphrasing...I wonder what I could have done to have prevented it from happening in the first place. We all need to be asking ourselves that same question. We're beginning to find our answers.