Comment Columbine was caused by teasing. (Score 0) 286
Columbine had nothing to do with bad parenting. Columbine was caused because these kids were the social outcasts and constantly teased an harassed and insulted and degraded every day in school. Add to this the fact that we love to tell kids that there is no life beyond high school and that you are going to be this way for the rest of your life and you will be hated and made fun of the rest of your life.
Anyone in this situation will eventualy snap. I should know, I nearly was one of these kids who snapped. I was lucky to realise that I was borderline, and that if I continued to go to middle school I would have hurt myself or others. I got myself comitted.
My parents did a wonderfull job raising me, but I know damn well, that if I had wanted to shoot up the school, I could have gotten all the weapons I needed, and they would have never known a damn thing.
Perhaps Harris and Clebold familys were bad parents, but I doubt that was the only cause of this. Bad parrenting might have caused them to do it (they didn't listen when they asked for help), but the idea was in their heads long before bad parenting had something to do with it.
If you want to stop school shootings and the like, Find the pricks who harass and tease others and "educate" them on how it's wrong. Don't just tell the harassed kids that it will get better some day.
I love violent video games. They kept me from hurting someone when I was in middle school. Once school was over I could go home, load up quake 2 enable cheats and blow things to bits with the rail gun. It made me feel much better.
Anyone in this situation will eventualy snap. I should know, I nearly was one of these kids who snapped. I was lucky to realise that I was borderline, and that if I continued to go to middle school I would have hurt myself or others. I got myself comitted.
My parents did a wonderfull job raising me, but I know damn well, that if I had wanted to shoot up the school, I could have gotten all the weapons I needed, and they would have never known a damn thing.
Perhaps Harris and Clebold familys were bad parents, but I doubt that was the only cause of this. Bad parrenting might have caused them to do it (they didn't listen when they asked for help), but the idea was in their heads long before bad parenting had something to do with it.
If you want to stop school shootings and the like, Find the pricks who harass and tease others and "educate" them on how it's wrong. Don't just tell the harassed kids that it will get better some day.
I love violent video games. They kept me from hurting someone when I was in middle school. Once school was over I could go home, load up quake 2 enable cheats and blow things to bits with the rail gun. It made me feel much better.
