For the love of everything! I was picked on and made fun of for 18 years in school. I never decided to take a gun to class and just start randomly shooting. Now it's possible that yes, this child does have something mentally wrong with him. *Ring, ring* Um, yeah, Hi parents? Time to wake up. If a person has some sort of mental issue, wouldn't it have been detected by now?
I hate to point fingers at parents or society but hey, if the shoe fits I guess. It seems more and more these days, you see parents lugging children around in carriers or something of the like. That's fine for transportation purposes. But how about interacting with the child more? Playing with him/her at home, holding them, rocking them to sleep, whatever. More and more you see parents who rely on machines or other people to that for them. Children need to establish that bond witha child IMMEDIATELY! And they're not. It's holding over into growing up. Kids and parents are getting seperated almost from birth. It's almost as if parents don't care anymore. And it's that type of behavior that leads to garbage like this.
Contributing to this is society. "It's the entertaiment industry, it's the game industry....blah blah blah" Let me tell you something, I played D&D, Magic, Doom, Duke Nukem, etc, etc. Again, I'm not going out and killing people. Instead of pointing the finger at someone else, take a look at yourselves. I think South Park the movie hit it right on the mark. If you haven't seen it, one of the children's mother basically forms an organization to abolish "filthy" language in a Canadian movie. Did she deal with the child? Of course not. That would require actual parenting. Instead, she attacked something that absolved her from guilt.
Lastly, I'm getting married in a couple months. My fiance and I are scared to death to bring a child into this world. Yes, we're still planning on it. And we're also planning on rearing that child in a God and parent loving home. But even so, we can't protect them 100% from all of the garbage in the world. Yes we can monitor what our child watches, reads and listens too. But the plague of human society will eventually catch up to them. It will take everyone making a concentrated effort to raise their children the way God intended in order to make any kind of change. Otherwise, keep watching the news... because they'll be more shootings in schools.