Teens against gun violence

  A group of teens worked up a skit to demonstrate their frustration with gun violence of school grounds.  They have my full support on that.  In the skit the blame for the violence is place on adults .  A girl in the skit pours a soda slowly on the floor while proclaiming that she will clean up her mess in order to demonstrate the groups assertion that adults promise to stop the violence while doing the same old things that allowed the violence to happen to begin with.
   While I do agree that legislators and school administration can do more things to curb gun violence in schools, many would not be cost effective or welcomed by the students.  I suppose the best method would be to strip search everyone who comes on campus but who wants that?
   From reading about what motivates these shooters, it has occurred to me the problem isn't so much the adults as it is with the kids themselves.  Some classmates are bullied and or ignored.    It is difficult to feel as if you are an outcast and even harder when you are picked on for being different.  The problem with being different is that we are all different.  While it is true that some people are cruel and different and it really isn't safe to be around them most kids are picked on because of their size or their looks.  Years of frustration and anger build up and sometimes those pent up feelings are unleased by acts of violence.
   The best way to prevent school violence is by the kids themselves:  stop picking on other kids and embrace them and not just ignore others.  In other words, take away the reason for others to hate or resent you and you take away their motivation to exact revenge.
  The kids need to own up to their own failures and their own part in gun violence and quit blaming adults.