Columbine Author Dave Cullen Calls for ‘Fewer Guns’ in Wake of Texas School Shooting

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CULLEN: "Well, I don’t think that’s the way out of this. I don’t think — trying to identify shooters in advance is definitely a laudable goal and something that we’re working on. The FBI has great task force. I know some of those people. And they do actually between they and local law enforcement foil more plots than go forward. So that is very important. It’s been somewhat successful. But we’re never going to get all of them. That’s a needle in a haystack. To me ways out of this are fewer guns, I would say not mental health. That’s a ridiculously wide thing. I would say it is screening for teen depression because most of these are deeply suicidally depressed. Third we have to find a way to diminish the sort of heroic nature that we in the media create for the shooter. And I think that’s kind of the untold story of parkland, that they had finally accomplished that. I know — I don’t know if everybody at this table can remember the name of — well, probably at this table — but most people in America right now cannot name the parkland shooter. Where everyone — most people in America can name Emma Gonzalez, David hoke and several of the others. They had actually taken the spotlight off the killer. That has never happened before in the history of any of these things. So we may have reached a turning point there of them making this less attractive to shooters if hopefully the Santa Fe people do the same thing. Hopefully tomorrow some of these Santa Fe kids will be on television tonight and tomorrow and most of the conversation tomorrow will be about those kids instead of this guy before parkland, that has never happened before."