[Long] It is not about the guns. It is about mental health.

It is not an issue of guns. It is an issue of mental health and the public school system. Violence begets violence, and copycat killers are a thing. Our media over-hypes and sensationalizes these events. We give these situations attention, and life, and this breeds the feeling that if another person commits the same crime they too will be remembered in the media aftermath. The public school system is little more than an indoctrination day care from 7-3. What may have started as a benign attempt to provide free education for the young masses, has turned into a decaying institution where children are crammed into cattle cars and force fed paid curriculum which do little more than line the pockets of textbook creators. Public school systems are sterile, they do not condone any natural human behavior. We have long forgotten what an open-air discourse looks like. We have separated ourselves from nature, put our children in boxes and told them to think inside of this box. I laugh when I hear educators and parents say "think outside the box". Surely, the children who have dared to think outside the box have been shunned for non-conformity. There is only ONE way to solve a problem, there is only ONE way to speak to a teacher, there is only ONE way to present a lesson. Teachers and students alike are extremely discouraged from breaking away from the norm. Curriculum providers such as Pearson and McgrawHill develop a system designed to make PROFIT! They do not care for the overall well-being of any man woman or child save their own. This curriculum is then SOLD to school boards across the nation, wrapped up in twisting legalese that make it impossible to teach anything outside of this curriculum. *How does that condone free thought?* Let us now look at the public school system in more detail. Year after year children are forced to wake up at unhealthy hours in the morning, when it has been proven that during the early developmental stages of a human it is absolutely necessary to sleep during these times. They are, by the thousands, dumped into a small building where nobody has explained the rules to them. They struggle from day one to figure out what its all about. Adults do not help them. They are lost in the building, and not only that but they are lost inside themselves. Group thought dominates the school. The children form their own in-groups and out-groups. They collectively create a caste system that is absolutely brutal. If you do not look a certain way, act a certain way, think a certain way, then the majority of the children label and discard you. Remember the cliche cliques? The jocks, the cheerleaders, the preps, the nerds, the weirdos, the goths. Remember these labels? WE CREATED THOSE LABELS FOR OURSELVES. Or rather, we created them for OTHERS. Little children cannot possibly understand the psychology going on behind the scenes. They can't see themselves acting in such cannibalistic ways until it is too late. Looking back on my own public school experience, I am very surprised any of us made it out alive. To return to the first point: Children are forced into this box and set free to devour each other. The public school system induces so much stress in their lives. From a young age we are instilled with the fear of failure. If the child does not make the assignment by the deadline, they fail. If the assignment is not EXACTLY created as outlined in the curriculum, they fail. If the assignment does not fit socially conditioned norms compared to other students, they fail. It is this stress that begins to eat away at the desire to stay in education. It is this stress that leads to more failure. Eventually, it was this stress that led to the epidemic of psychotropic drug prescriptions. The child doesn't want to conform? Simply give them a drug. The child can't wake up early enough in the morning? Here is a drug for that. The child has anxiety issues about going to school? Here is yet another drug. These pharmaceuticals are destroying lives. Everyone knows it. Nobody does anything about it. Ever seen a drug commercial? Ever read the pamphlet the pharmacist staples to the back of the prescription? To fix ONE disorder these drugs implement a HOST of other issues. Millions of young hearts and minds are being pushed through this cookie-cutter system that lasts more than a decade. It truly is brainwashing, and it is NOT conducive to a healthy mindset. Those of us who can withstand the torture eventually graduate and move on, the remnants of what could have been our minds slowly falling away from us as we pursue careers. Those of us that can't withstand the torture...well...you've seen what happens. These children are being force fed pills, being force fed curriculum, and being forced to survive in their mental jungle of stereotypes and cliques. This is the true root of our issue in America. It is not a gun issue. It is a mental health issue, and it is here that I rest my argument. You want something to be done? You scream at the president to fix it all? Why not take it upon yourself instead of waiting for the government to do something. Why don't you be a big boy or a big girl and grow the hell up and realize what is going on in our country. We must dismantle the American Public Education System and replace it with a creation that provides a healthy lifestyle to our kids. Look at how it is rigged against us: It is extremely difficult to survive with just one paycheck. So mommy and daddy have to BOTH get a job. That means there is nobody to watch the kids, which is why they are shipped off to school. When the kids get home, they take care of themselves, or a babysitter watches them, or a daycare/nursery steps in. Then mommy and daddy come home from work, exhausted. It is too late to spend time with the kids. It is too tiring to hear their cries and their woes. So here is some television! So here is some internet! The children get home from school and their faces are shoved into MORE BOXES! And look at the disgusting trash that is considered mainstream entertainment! Degenerates get on the screen and preach to the children how God is dead and you can be a boy or girl with a simple surgery. Don't just settle for one sex partner! Why do that when you can "be free" and do what thou wilt?! Drugs and Sex are cool! Give in to your hedonistic lower selves! Don't follow traditional morals! There is no afterlife because science says so! SO BE FREE AND HAVE FUN! We are being BRAINWASHED in every way possible! How far we have fallen! We have LET this happen! So now it is up to the remaining free-thinkers to understand what is truly going on, and to do something about it. I'm not saying I have the answer. But I damn sure know what the problem is.