Can We Prevent Future Shootings?

As I make a blog about what happened in Florida this week with yet another school shooting, I see the same usual thing. One group of people (such as the moronic LeBron James) want guns banned, blame politics, yada yada yada. The other side defends the use of guns and want to find reasons for why the bad guy did such a tragedy. The sad reality of this one, however, is that the FBI was notified back in September of Nikloas Cruz's comment on a YouTube video back in September.

If Ben Bennight's name hasn't been mentioned a lot other than the news, you'll know it on the Internet. Articles are going on that back in September last year, he noticed a video comment from Cruz, saying he was going to be a school shooter. That comment got Bennight's attention and it led to him calling the FBI in Mississippi where the vlogger lived and was asked questions not too long after that. With this shooting popping up, he was questioned again about knowing Cruz. He didn't.

While it is common to see threat comments on YouTube because of anger, something like saying they want to be a school shooter should raise red flags. The FBI has been an incompetent group for a very long time due to various reasons. They had a huge opportunity four plus months ago to question this, and they blew that. It's sad that this had to happen, but they could have prevented this from happening. This is a black eye to the United States.

To be honest, I don't know what can prevent shootings in the future. The FBI has to be a lot better at taking a school shooter comment seriously. Banning guns is not going to solve anything at all. Neither is any gun reform, firing of politicians, or any of that. There isn't a simple answer. It's very complicated with all sorts of red tape that it could still be a problem when there are new generations of people once we are gone from the world.

We have a lot to do to look at things like mental health, the shooter's history, and any other things that don't seem right. As usual, people look for scapegoats like video games. Instead of shifting blame on a medium or the NRA immediately, let's find the cause of the person's problem and use it as a way to future steps of preventing these kind of shootings from happening. If we can, we can build a better future and people won't have to worry about a psycho on the loose. Otherwise, we're going to keep seeing the same whiny liberals and the very defensive conservatives butt heads over and over like a running gag.