Oh yeah, absolutely agreed.

Schools will care so much about their reputations, deny responsibility, and then it's all "thoughts and prayers, who could imagine such a thing" when their gamble busts.

I bet they secretly love the "gun debate" because they can just back out Homer Simpson style while everyone fights and argues about dangerous objects, meanwhile they'll continue to cultivate an environment where they can ignore the kids who are learning to hate the world and everyone in it with such intensity they'll feel like doing something terrible about it.

Adequate motivation will always find the means, and they keep creating an environment that fosters that motivation.

If we take this thinking to its ridiculous extreme: Admins likely wouldn't care if they had an entire school of bullied, depressed, violently rageful potential killers in every class, provided they were able to remove all of these students' hands and the funding kept flowing.

It's unforgivable. Nobody copes well with believing they're alone in the world and nobody is on their side or understands them.