I don’t know. Shooting does seem the norm, if not the normal thing to do. Kids have got to.learn to exist in the world we have, not the one we wish we had. And shooting drills are not the only place where disgruntled youth learn about the option of gun violence. That lesson is being taught everywhere.
I understand how you feel and what you’re saying, but we can’t surrender to apathy because that will only hasten the desensitization process that humans experience when they are exposed to something over and over again in spite of the fact that the “something” is truly horrible.
We can’t surrender to apathy, but we also can’t let external news events drive us as individuals into a pit of depression & despair.
If a person (any person) finds themselves obsessing about other peoples’ misfortunes to the point that their own life is being ruined, well perhaps they should just ignore all those other people and problems while they work on fixing their own life so external events that are not really any of their business don’t overwhelm them so.
They will be happier after making this change to themselves and the world will be largely unaffected by them tuning out meantime.
It is definitely not the norm. Nearly every school will never see a mass shooting there. I’m not defending our system, but terrorizing kids for this extremely remote possibility seems terrible.
At one point, my local school was talking about putting in metal detectors and armed guards, and so on. I suggested teaching healthy eating and defensive driving and you’ll save many more lives. Or, add a class about depression and how to spot it and treat it – there’s a suicide every couple of years, but zero shootings.
Nearly every school won’t see a fire or tornado, but we do drills for them.
Of course, there’s a different level of terror involved when it is accident or nature vs a human who has made the deliberate decision to try to kill you.
The problem with your scenario is that you’re applying the mental health care at just about the latest point in the process that is possible.
Real “mental health care” would likely involve lesser interventions much earlier in the person’s life, so that they (hopefully) don’t get to the point where they’re seriously considering shooting up a public place. Like, have counselors in schools to spot kids with difficulties when they are still kids, and in workplaces, to help out employees who may be having problems. Also, make it much easier for individuals to ask for and receive treatment for things like depression and other problems.
The way things are now, you pretty much have to be in a crisis to get anyone to take your problems seriously. Change that, and you change everything.
Unless you have money to spend $100’s an hour for sessions.
I think it’s pretty clearly like the Soviet collapse, we’re in it now.
Bootstrap shortages?
It’s not the norm that any one school will suffer a mass shooting event every couple of weeks, but it IS the norm that in the US, some school (or church or mall, etc.) will.
(added to my above post)