This post discusses the PBS special, The Path to Violence. You can see the special and other links from PBS here: Watch The Path to Violence on PBS. See more from After Newtown. This is great documentary about school violence that PBS produced titled “After Newtown – The Path To Violence.” It talks about an aspect of school violence that the national media often doesn’t bring up – not every attack that is planned is successful. The investigation that PBS’s team conducted highlighted a major point that is worth discussing – school shootings don’t just happen, they are often planned out, anywhere from two to three weeks to two years. From the perspective of identifying and stopping these attacks, the fact that there is a planning phase is a good thing. The longer a student plans an attack, the more pre-event indicators they will leave behind for people to pick up on and help to assist in the early detection of those with intentions to harm others.