Ray Kopczynski - City Council Ward II  Can we end school
shootings?  Daylong coverage on Portland TV: Everybody paid
attention.  Daylong coverage on Portland TV: Everybody paid
attention.  School shootings like the one in Troutdale Tuesday
will keep happening until  we learn to keep teenagers from
developing murderous impulses and acting on them.  After the
murder at Reynolds High School, we heard the usual calls for our
elected officials to do something. Like what? Ban rifles and
confiscatie all the ones citizens already own? No chance. Do a
better job treating people with problems affecting their mental
health? Certainly, assuming we know how to do that and can
afford it.  But in a state of more than 4 million people, let
alone in a country with more than 320 million or so, we can't
treat even a small fraction of all those who might be a little
unbalanced. So shootings will remain a routine event unless we
get to the cause, which probably is not mental illness but the
culture in which many of our children g