Hindsight is always 20/20.

First off, i'd like to offer my sympathies to the the families and friends of the victims in the shooting. 32 people down and out (no, i'm not counting the shooter who kicked the bucket afterwards), some of those dead were assets to humankind. Their potential contribution to humankind's betterment is a loss no one can really quantify.

now. the thing is, the motives maybe different between shootings (Columbine, etc), but one common fact remains - the incidents happened in the schools where the kids are supposedly safe. a lot of questions pop up with their individual sets of the proverbial can of worms.

admittedly, there are times when i've gotten the urge to do just that - grab a gun or two and go pop heads. preferably a rifle with a decent scope for zooming in that face before it becomes a bloody pulp, a handy-dandy high-capacity handgun for close quarters, a sharp K-Bar for special cases and hand-to-hand. maybe rig some cars with bombs so that people running away on their wheels will get a nasty surprise. mix some poison (cynanide or some other toxins that can be absorbed thru the eyes, skin or thru inhalation) in the water sprinklers then make a fire. those things are not that hard to do - a little know-how on chemistry and mechanics, contacts, good planning, will and determination to do the deed are all you need. heck, if you're just aiming to kill off a lot of people, you can remove the 'good planning' bit and just charge in with guns rambo-style.

call it school rage. or whatever you'd call the sudden explosion of accumulated malice, anger and [insert whatever ill emotions you want here] that you get from school. and the funny thing is, a lot of these so ill feelings come from the environment called school. weird? it makes for an interesting case study, if anything.