WA high school shooter was the freshman Homecoming King.
So probably not an outcast, just some angry kid with a gun.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/24/us/washington-school-shooting/
The gunman who opened fire Friday at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High School has been identified as freshman Jaylen Fryberg, fellow students, including eyewitnesses, told CNN.
Fryberg was announced as the high school's freshman homecoming king on October 17, according to YouTube video of the ceremony and accounts from students to CNN.
Fryberg's multiple social media accounts depict him frequently hunting, and using rifles. His social media accounts say he was a Native American and a member of the Tulalip tribe.
[Breaking news update, posted at 4:23 p.m. ET]
A student at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High School walked into the school's cafeteria, went up to a table with students, "came up from behind ... and fired about six bullets into the backs of them," witness Jordan Luton told CNN. "They were his friends, so it wasn't just random," Luton said.
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prove tha the NRA is promoting anything other than gun rights.
Individual board members do promote other than gun rights, but not under the banner of the NRA
As usual, a big fat failure on your part.
You made me drop my nook.
And the mass shooter at Virginia Tech was South Korean.
And Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine killers, was raised by college-educated, middle-class, suburban parents who even named him after Dylan Thomas, a renowned Welsh poet.
Mass school shootings don't appear to follow any particular pattern, ie primarily by kids raised in families that hold racist or militia points of view. They appear to be spread across the racial and socio-economic spectrum, as the examples I gave above indicate.
Like I said, there is something deeper at work here than saying "da racist gun nutz caused it."
Personally, my completely unscientific opinion is that far too few children are being responsibly introduced to guns by their parents, and those who are being introduced to guns are often introduced in a way that makes guns more like toys than potentially lethal weapons. I have 25-yr old coworkers who's only prior experience with guns is through video games, going out and buying AR's and AK's because they look cool, and blasting away hundreds of rounds at a gun range.
Whereas I was introduced to shooting with a single-shot, pump pellet gun by my dad, couldn't shoot his .22-cal rifle for squirrel hunting until I passed gun safety when I was 12, and wasn't allowed unsupervised access to said gun until I was 16. And even then, I had to conserve ammo by shooting slow and safe, or I'd get no more bullets for a while. Even today, my go-to gun is a single-shot pellet rifle, albeit a high-powered one capable of hunting with.
Goodness what would have happened if he didn't have a gun!
Keep saying it. 
As I've said before: PROSECUTE THE OWNER OF THE GUN--long term jail.
That would go a long way to stopping this. It was his father's gun.
