In the wake of the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida many protests have taken the forefront of the mainstream media. It can be argued that stricter gun laws are the answer. That is simply not the case. No mass shooters are not mentally sane. Stricter mental health laws are the answer. Mass shooters have a history of mental illness. Seung-Hui Cho, a 23 year old Korean-American citizen, opened fire on campus at Virginia Tech University. Armed with two handguns, the Glock 19 and Walther P22, Cho shot at the students and teachers that attended Virginia Tech. He killed 32 and injured 17. Cho then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.This became the deadliest school shooting in 80 years. A year and a half earlier on December 13, 2005 Cho was admitted to the psych ward
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Cruz had Autism and ADHD. He was also adopted at birth, but his adoptive father died in 2004 and his adoptive mother died in November 2017. He was banished from Stoneman Douglas in 2017 only because legally the school couldn’t expel him. The school could not expel him because Cruz had the right to a “free and appropriate” education. Phil McCausland from NBC News wrote, “Crisis workers from a South Florida mental health facility were called in 2016 to hold alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz for a psychiatric evaluation after he sent out a Snapchat video in which he cut his arms and said he wanted to buy a gun, according to a mental health report.”. Emma Gonzalez said in her speech in Parkland, Florida, “Those talking about how we should have not ostracized him, you didn't know this kid. OK, we did.” This warrants the belief that Cruz was bullied or “ostracized” in some way. Now this troubled childhood and high school experience doesn’t excuse what he did, but it does explain why he did it. Sometimes the why’s are more important that the
Cruz had Autism and ADHD. He was also adopted at birth, but his adoptive father died in 2004 and his adoptive mother died in November 2017. He was banished from Stoneman Douglas in 2017 only because legally the school couldn’t expel him. The school could not expel him because Cruz had the right to a “free and appropriate” education. Phil McCausland from NBC News wrote, “Crisis workers from a South Florida mental health facility were called in 2016 to hold alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz for a psychiatric evaluation after he sent out a Snapchat video in which he cut his arms and said he wanted to buy a gun, according to a mental health report.”. Emma Gonzalez said in her speech in Parkland, Florida, “Those talking about how we should have not ostracized him, you didn't know this kid. OK, we did.” This warrants the belief that Cruz was bullied or “ostracized” in some way. Now this troubled childhood and high school experience doesn’t excuse what he did, but it does explain why he did it. Sometimes the why’s are more important that the