School shootings
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot the whole day down
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On 29 January 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire on children arriving at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego from her house across the street, killing two men and wounding eight students and a police officer. Brenda is eligible to again apply for parole in 2009.
This is not new. Oh, the numbers get bigger as the guns get bigger, but SNAP--"SHOOT THEM ALL!!!" has been with us for decades. Very likely longer.
And it'll continue. The numbers will grow as students are more and more isolated, as schools are increasingly industrialized to the point where many students feel like cogs in a machine. And it's not just schools--"road rage" is the corporate commuter version of the same reaction. (Except that nobody quizzes the DMV after a road rage incident, asking, "didn't you know this person was unsafe on the road? Why'd you give him a license? He's been arrested four times for aggresive driving incidents--don't you have someoene who pays attention to these trends?" --I find the questioning of mental health professionals in the Virginia Tech incident to be ludicrous.)
We need to stop worrying about removing access to guns--even if we could succeed, there's no end of dangerous weapons available to someone set on destruction. (Right down to very simple styrofoam-soaked-in-gasoline napalm.) We need to change the way we relate to each other.The problem is not guns.
The problem is a toxic social environment. The canaries are dying. The canaries are dying. The canaries are dying.
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot the whole day down
----------------
On 29 January 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire on children arriving at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego from her house across the street, killing two men and wounding eight students and a police officer. Brenda is eligible to again apply for parole in 2009.
This is not new. Oh, the numbers get bigger as the guns get bigger, but SNAP--"SHOOT THEM ALL!!!" has been with us for decades. Very likely longer.
And it'll continue. The numbers will grow as students are more and more isolated, as schools are increasingly industrialized to the point where many students feel like cogs in a machine. And it's not just schools--"road rage" is the corporate commuter version of the same reaction. (Except that nobody quizzes the DMV after a road rage incident, asking, "didn't you know this person was unsafe on the road? Why'd you give him a license? He's been arrested four times for aggresive driving incidents--don't you have someoene who pays attention to these trends?" --I find the questioning of mental health professionals in the Virginia Tech incident to be ludicrous.)
We need to stop worrying about removing access to guns--even if we could succeed, there's no end of dangerous weapons available to someone set on destruction. (Right down to very simple styrofoam-soaked-in-gasoline napalm.) We need to change the way we relate to each other.The problem is not guns.
The problem is a toxic social environment. The canaries are dying. The canaries are dying. The canaries are dying.