re: School safety: A few things to increase it

I don't disagree with any of that. Here's an issue I see due to the "we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings" society we live in today.

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Be more vigilant in investigating the clues (social media provides many)

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All the time we hear "See something. Say something." But, if you "say something" there is a high probability you will be accused of being racist, prejudiced, a bully, etc.

I'm sure most of us went to high school with a handful of weird MFer's. People who if you took a poll of "most likely to shoot up the school" would win in a landslide. Yet, if you tell an administrator that _____ is a "weird guy" that needs to be looked at the outrage brigade would come out in full force to call you a "bully." If that particular person was not a straight white male then you would be both a Bully AND a bigot/racist. Just look what happen when the Muslim kind in Texas built a "clock" that just so happened to resemble a bomb moreso than a clock. Students and teachers "said something" and predictable outrage ensued. Everyone involved was called a racist and the fricking President of the United States brought the kid to the White House and commended him as some sort of "great innovator".

Now, thankfully, it wasn't a bomb and no one was hurt. But I guarantee that if another "clock" built by a Muslim kid happens to show up at a school the teachers, administration, students, etc. will be much more hesitant to "say something" for fear of being smeared by the media and social media as "racist".

It's a juxtaposition that many today won't allow to be reconciled because not hurting someone's feelings is evidently paramount to possible preventing mass killings. I'm sure it happens, but it's relatively rare that happy, popular, social people decide one day to massacre fellow humans for no apparent reason whatsoever. But God forbid you point out some anti-social loser or a Muslim person may have mass terror proclivities.

It's not the ONLY cause of these events. But the ridiculous PC culture we live in today doesn't help in trying to prevent them.