Marysville School Shooting: It Could Happen Anywhere
The
Marysville, Wash. School Shooting:
Senseless tragedies like these will continue to happen until we not only change
the gun laws across America - but also fundamentally change the inherit flaws
in our present day society.
We have to do more together in order to stop the
disheartening and increasing trend of gun
violence in our communities, now to include our nation’s latest 14
year old “School Shooter, “Jaylen Fryburg. We need to start teaching our kids something
more valuable and enlightening than how to run-for-it when someone pulls out a
gun and starts shooting. What we as a
people need to do, and what we should strive to teach our children, in order to
help stop future school, mall, and workplace shootings are:
Teach
our children real life coping skills: There were some clear warning
signs prior to the Oct, 24th school shooting in Marysville, Washington , when Jaylen
Fryburg walked into his Pilchuck
High School cafeteria, sat down, and then silently
stood back up again, emotionless - and unloaded a small hand gun into six of his fellow students, two of whom
were his cousins, is that: He had just Broken up with his girl-friend. Was
recently suspended/ kicked-off his football team for a fight with another
team-mate over a supposedly racist comment towards him. He was also posting very
dark and disturbing social media tweets on Twitter (even for a 14 year-old),
weeks before committing his terrible crime on not only his young victims, but also
to himself and his family when he took his own life afterwards. It was obvious
that he had planned the attack beforehand as an act of revenge.
Teach
our Youth the value of life: Jaylan Fryburg was related to a
prominent Native American family living on the successful Tulalip Reservation that
is located about thirty five miles north of Seattle. The boy was considered
popular and happy. Before his fatal meltdown, he greeted other students
normally and waited until lunch time to wreak his wrath on his fellow students,
plus society as a whole. Making such a huge and aggressively violent statement about his growing inner apathy with
life, its inhabitants, and the seemingly futility of bothering to go through it
all expressed in his social media posts, are also a grave and vehement statement
about our current American lifestyles, opinions, judgments, and perceptions of
others. The psychological repercussions
of our modern lives may be infringing on our youths mental health. Young
Americans views on life’s true meanings, and a life’s Non-monetary worth, may
be being compromised by our dependence on materialistic technological advances,
and large social eccentric personality and inferiority complexes that span
across the world-wide-web. We slowly maybe redefining our social public worth
to conform to cyber-space social standards - Technology seems to be overpassing
some of our citizen’s mental capacities of coping with life’s simple and
inevitable ups and downs.
Keep
Guns out of our kid’s hands: Jaylan was recently given a Deer
rifle for a
present from his parents at the age of 14, and was able to get ahold-of a small
hand gun even at his young age. Gun reforms and universal background checks
will stem the private sectors Un-regulated gun stockpiles, which are patiently waiting
to ironically and legally slip into the wrong psychotic, criminal, or
disgruntled hands. But gun control will do nothing to help hold back the
illnesses, resentments, and apathetic hopelessness of a troubled human mind.
With increasingly violent games being tolerated by society,
and promoted by big money retailers, and over a decade of constant brutal and
bloody war being constantly broadcasted virtually in its entirety to grown-ups
and juveniles alike, sometimes it seems futile, not to mention hypocritical to think
that we are going to simply solve the epidemic of senseless youth violence
through a rigorous school
Anti-bullying program. They
certainly had bullies when I went to High School in the late 1970s, but I
cannot remember one school shooting from that period, let alone a decade’s long
series of endless school campus shootings. What we as a society may not realize
is that by condoning, fully participating in, and passively promoting these
progressively negative daily social norms of war, violence, intolerance, and
public apathy mixed in with a strong dose of governmental distrust, that we
might also be negatively infecting the future of our nation, with our nations
somewhat hidden and under-discussed, or just plain Un-acknowledged social
toxins. Unfortunately this makes society culpable and in-directly responsible
for our present predicament of murderous and suicidal teenagers and grown-ups alike
that seem to decide to intentionally and methodically snap one day, making sure
that they take out all the petty cruelties, irritants, and inconveniences of
their lives with them, vengefully and seemingly to those around them, without warning.
Reading some of Jaylen Fryburg’s social media posts below,
in hindsight, just like these shootings, they are a warning to the American People
as to the need for deep social changes in our attitudes, perceptions, and sense
of community. Jaylen’s messages are also a sad young boy’s desperate cry for help
that once again fell unheeded with drastic and terribly tragic consequences for
all those concerned.
Oct 23 - It
won't last.... It'll never last.... Oct
21 - If I just laid down Oct 21
- I should have listened.... You were right... The whole time you were right. Oct 21 - It breaks me... It
actually does... I know it seems like I'm sweating it off... But I'm not... And
I never will be able to...Oct 20 -
Alright. You fuckin got
me.... That broke me Oct 13 -
Fuuuucccckkkkkk you
And several very chilling and ominous posts he made a few months before, that
may have been foretelling’s of a dark future - Sept
20th - I'm tired of this shit I'm sooo fucking
done!!! I HATE THIS SHIT
I Hate Hearin Shit Like That.. It Just Continues To Fuck Me Up I Just Feel
Stupid Now.. Exactly What I Thought Was Gonna Happen Happened.. Aug 20 - Your gonna piss me off... And then some shits gonna go down and I don't
think you'll like it... I hate that I can't live without you - Your not gonna
like what happens next
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