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Originally posted by amycat412:
What I don't understand is why this is so prevalent today. What happened over the last several years to make school an unsafe place. I know I sound naive, but this didn't go on when I was in high school and I don't get it.
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Really, I think it's SICK. The kid was picked on. I was picked on. Hell, every 13, 14, or 15 year old kid was picked on. These messed up kids see one movie that inspires them, or news footage of events like columbine and get ideas in their warped unbalanced heads, and just go with it.
This is why I HATE the media sometimes. Because they don't realize (or maybe they do) that they perpetuate the problem. Kids who are picked on and have chemical imbalances see the news footage and get angrier and angrier and see examples like this that predominate the images they see on the news at night, and see that as a possible outlet for their own anger as well. It is so naive of the media to cover these stories to the extent they do. yes, i am aware that news is news and that stories like this are imporant for people to hear. Perhaps this event, this particular one, might be inspiration enough for change in the schools.
But you know what, it's not. This messed up kid went to friends and told them what he was intending to do. They thought he was kidding. DING DONG. HELLO??? ANYONE HOME??? people don't joke about things like that. And in the wake of columbine, the fact that these kids, not one of them (cause my understanding that there were a few) went to a teacher to warn them, makes me ill. one of the kids said on t.v. last night that he felt kind of guilty because not only did the shooter tell this student what he was planning, but he went so far as to invite him to join him on his shooting rampage. Well, there's blood on his hands, he should feel guilty. I'm sorry if i'm sounding harsh but children died because 15 and 16 year olds, old enough to have developed some monicum of cognitive ability didn't think it odd or worthy of warning that a friend of theirs talked about opening fire on the students and teachers of that school.
I watch the news during times like these and am so sad and so scared for our children...
Leslie
[This message has been edited by gphi2k (edited March 06, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by gphi2k (edited March 06, 2001).]