John Ganz, Ed. But we must be careful not to profile. Kids and guns are lethal. Schools must be able to support kids more. One counselor for 500 kids doesn t work.
Social workers see kids, but there s only a few per school.
Every shooting has occurred in a large school, not a small school. It is about alienation from society and feeling not cared about or noticed by the adult world. Many teens are living too private a lifestyle where their peer interactions can go on unchallenged and undiscovered. In this loneliness comes distorted thinking and antisocial thinking which is reinforced by other teens in their same predicament. Louis Kraus, MD, division head of child and adolescent psychiatry, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and head of psychiatry at the Illinois Dept. of Corrections facility at Joliet, stresses that all adolescents become mad and impulsive at some point.