Cause Of School Shootings

School shootings are a topic of much fascination in the U.S. They invoke such attention in the media circus of 'why's' and 'what's' that there's often little time to even mourn for the victims. Perhaps it's the immense shock that comes from the idea of our youth shooting up their peers indiscriminately, but it is a fair question nonetheless. What causes school shootings?
Well, a variety of things. But the discussions that follow are often along the lines of: "did they play too many violent video games?" and "were they fans of death metal?" Superfluous questioning like this wastes so much time and diverts so much attention away from the more pressing issues that it becomes increasingly difficult for people to understand the circumstances behind each tragedy. …show more content…
Young children often feel pressured to justify their worth to other peers is so important, that they often see violence as one of the only answers.
Family environments and the media are two big influences resulting in tragic school shootings. As much as society continues to focus the killing rampages on factors such as television and music, what children are exposed to in their home lives mainly contributes to the violence. For example, I recently watched a news broadcast on television about a school shooting in Michigan that involved a six-year-old first grader who killed a classmate with a .22 caliber pistol. The news coverage had disappeared after two or three days, and I was left