"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:19AM
There is a book entitled "Going Postal" by Mark Ames which goes into the history of mass shootings, mostly the workplace variety but also school shootings. In most cases the shooters had been treated unfairly in some way, were being mocked by their peers, and when they tried to get help by going through official channels they were ignored at best.
A few other interesting points I recall from the book:
19th century slave rebellions (which were not as common as you might expect) received a similar kind of "OMG Why Did This Happen!?!?" reactions in the press as do mass shootings today.
The frequency of mass shootings begins to climb in the Reagan era.
In many cases a particular person (eg. the shooter's hated boss at work) seemed to be the target, but by dumb luck and circumstance were not around when the rampage happened.