The School Massacres in the United States

Abstract

Despite the widespread occurrence of violence in the U.S., school massacres are a quite recent phenomenon. It has led to an enormous spread of security technologies, handbooks on violence prevention and safety seminars in American schools. In some public schools security staff almost seems to „own” the school while teachers are more or less reduced to the status of „tenants.” The author argues on behalf of a broader perspective of cultural criticism, since the recent massacres are part of postmodern culture of unleashed capitalism which thwarts from the outset all attempts to legislate restrictions on the possession of guns and aggressive video games.