The total number of high school shooters is a minuscule number, much small than the number of teenage murders.
The US murder rate hasn't increased significantly over the last twenty years, in fact, it's decreased.
We should be concerned with school shooters, of course, but taking them as a chance to generalize about most boys or even a small percentage of boys seems incorrect.
Oddly enough, Malcolm Gladwell has some trenchant comments on the dynamics behind school shootings and the role media and culture play in this.
The US murder rate hasn't increased significantly over the last twenty years, in fact, it's decreased.
We should be concerned with school shooters, of course, but taking them as a chance to generalize about most boys or even a small percentage of boys seems incorrect.
Oddly enough, Malcolm Gladwell has some trenchant comments on the dynamics behind school shootings and the role media and culture play in this.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-...