In the worst school shooting in 30 years in Canada, eight children were killed and dozens more injured.
The attacker was a teenager who identified as transgender.
🕯️ The Question That Haunts Every Parent
How can someone care so little?
That’s the question echoing far louder than any headline detail. How does a young person reach a point where harming children becomes conceivable? Where classmates become targets? Where life becomes disposable?
There isn’t a simple answer. And that’s what makes it more terrifying.
Extreme violence like this is rarely about one trait, one label, one background factor. It’s usually a convergence of crisis, grievance, instability, access to means, and a breakdown somewhere — family, institutional, psychological, social.
But knowing that doesn’t make it easier to comprehend. 💔
Because the victims were children.
They weren’t symbols. They weren’t arguments. They weren’t data points in a wider debate. They were kids with friends, homework, favourite songs, inside jokes.
And now they are gone.
🏫 The World We Live In
You’re right to ask what kind of world allows this.
We live in a world where:
• Violence sometimes erupts from places that should feel safest.
• Warning signs are often clearer in hindsight.
• Communities are left trying to understand something that resists understanding.
The uncomfortable truth is that some acts defy neat explanation. Not because we refuse to look — but because human behaviour at its darkest isn’t rational.
What we can examine is:
• How someone gained access to carry out such harm.
• Whether intervention systems failed.
• Whether safeguards were missed.
• How schools can be better protected.
Those are questions that honour the victims.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
How do we keep the focus on victims while still demanding answers about prevention? 🤔
What changes would actually make schools safer — beyond headlines and arguments? Share your thoughts in the blog comments. Not for outrage. For reflection.
👇 Comment. Like. Share — but let the children remain at the centre of this story.
The most thoughtful responses will be featured in the next issue of the magazine. 📰✨
Chameleon Magazine 
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