We aren't all nice.

On that day, over the course of a few hours, three different times — three times — school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people. But the administration could not be bothered,” Toscano said.

News report on the Newport News shooter, age 6.

Also, it's been reported that the boy in question was fairly profoundly mentally disabled, and his parents had to go to school with him.

And hence we have the twin forks of part of a problem that has little to do with technology, and everything to do with an enfeebled American concept governing everything, which is that "it's nice to be nice to the nice, and everyone is nice".

We live in a fallen world and not everyone is okay.

Not by a long measure.

Cruel fate has provided that some are unable to rise to a potential, as their potential has been deprived from them at the onset.  Others will descend into that.  And yet, at the school level, we'd rather pretend that the profoundly disabled can "be just like everyone else" if we shove them in with everyone else, something that serves to depress everyone else's opportunities at the cost of attempting to rise up one person whom will not be able to, which may serve only to agitate them.

And because we do that, we have fatigue setting in, where we chose not to pay attention to signs, as the cost of paying attention to them is to be berated and subject to public scorn, or worse.

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