Update on 6 year old gunman teacher shooting.

[meadowlander]

30. He's six. His brain is barely developed to understand cause and effect.

When I was in school in the 80s in a very liberal part of the country, kids would sing a modified version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic as a joke:

"Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Teacher hit me with a ruler.
Hid behind the door with a loaded 44
That's why that teacher don't teach no more."

Lots of kids hate specific teachers and lots of kids fantasize about violence in a culture that doesn't really do anything to teach them alternative methods of conflict resolution. Youth culture can also be extremely persistent and retrograde passed from older siblings to younger and then circulated around peer groups. For example, "Ring around the rosey" is a song full of gallows humor about the bubonic plague which kids still sing today and don't get me started on "Eenie meenie miney moe".

Just saying we don't know enough of the facts here to assume that it must be the mother's (or any other adult's fault) that the kid got it into his head to shoot someone. Lots of kids' culture includes violent fantasies against authority figures which could flip the wrong switch in the wrong kid's underdeveloped brain.