Responses

    After the Columbine incident and after Michael Moore and Gus Van Sant's films, people were aware of the danger of these attacks. The solution proposed by Michael Moore, solid gun registration, hasn't been accepted, because of all the american people who are gun owners : there is 270 million of weapons for a population of 260 million inhabitants. This solution is unacceptable for them, even if USA is one of the most lax country in the world concerning firearms registration. So they acted differently to stop the massacres.

    Responses and solution proposed to these accidents were very heteroclite. The largest used was the prevention, with emergency plans like this one, but the warnings haven't prevent the latest shootings, like the Virginia Tech massacre. Other people have been more inventive concerning the defense of their children. They have created an armed milicia to stop potential troublemakers in schools. They have a website where they explain how they act to neutralize armed students ready to shoot, and provide course training to become part of the patrol response to active shooters. It is basical violence, and as Michael Moore said in his different films, America is the country of the violence. They don't know how to react differently. So it is a normal way for them to prevent violence by using violence too.

    But as the french proverb says, "prevention is better than cure", and they might look at the well-being of their children instead of intimidating them. There is a real social problem behind this, many students feel abandoned in the american education system, as we can see in the film Elephant. It would be worthwile to do something about that.

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