pick your head up queen your clown wig is falling

She wants to kill people because like she’s bored and lonely. That’s genuinely it. And she sees no real irony or falsehood in her becoming a gun control activist because it’s as genuine as the first thing.

She really does seem to be immediately past that. She’s over it. It wasn’t about hurting people, it was about looking cool and having an impact on others. Being an activist fills the same role in her life.

It’s still terrifying that it was that close. As Charlie points out, if there are thousands of mass shootings a year, how many people in this country are there who wanted to or almost did but didn’t go through with it? No one at her school knew, except, like, didn’t they?

She is not portrayed as the type of kid who was going to go on the black market to buy a weapon illegally or get a fake ID to buy one. She barely knows how to update her laptop. She simply grew up in a house with guns, with family members who were cavalier about gun safety, and had no one to talk to about her teen problems.

It's so casually pervasive that her father talks about it at his toast at his daughter's wedding! He has absolutely ZERO understanding of how his relationship with guns caused very serious harm to his daughter and very nearly her classmates, too.

All right, so, before we got married, we did this thing where we said the worst thing we've ever done.

Whenever I see someone disregard or disparage ideas of rehabilitation for people who have done (or in this movie's case, almost did) unforgivable things, I want to grab them and ask "what should be done, then?" Because, people like that do exist, in spades, and short of executing or imprisoning or Black Mirror White Bearing every person who's done or thought of doing something immoral, rehabilitation is probably the best bet for minimizing harm, right? (And if your answer to immorality IS execution or isolation... i do not think youre really the more moral one here...) But even taking out any potential empathy for the humans who do or think of doing immoral acts, sometimes, giving them the tools to lead a happy and fulfilling life are the exact thing that leads them AWAY from the potential acts of like, shooting up a school, regardless of how undeserving you think they are of that.