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DENVER (AP) — The 12 students and one teacher killed in the Columbine High School shooting will be remembered Friday in a vigil on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Some people just have weird kids..........it happens. So they have Mr Anti Social living in the basement ranting about how life sucks whatever.
So whether its these kids, the Parkland shooter kid or Ethan Crumbley who's parents BOUGHT the troubled kid a gun they are all heading down the path to trouble. Heck I'd bet these losers haven't even kissed a girl which is further separating them from their peers. I knew weird kids in my high school, they graduated and nobody heard from them again. We didn't have the labels of austistic/spectrum/aspergers whatever but you still knew the kids were "off"
It's just a word, diagnosed by opinion. It's not like "he has cancer" or "he's a double amputee" where you can actually have an objective diagnosis. So I would agree it doesn't matter.
But that's why I started this thread...because I think it does matter. Possibly there are specific interventions that can be made with a person who has this diagnosis, as opposed to people who kill for other reasons (e.g. Jared Laughner of Tucson, who apparently has paranoid schizophrenia). From everything I've read, it appeared that Harris showed extremely antisocial signs early in life, but those around him either looked the other way or didn't take his behavior seriously.
There's a more detailed and apparently accurate book out about this crime, Columbine, A True Story, written by a former Rocky Mountain reporter, Jeff Kass; detailing fifteen years of research on the Columbine massacre. I haven't read it yet.
There's a more detailed and apparently accurate book out about this crime, Columbine, A True Story, written by a former Rocky Mountain reporter, Jeff Kass; detailing fifteen years of research on the Columbine massacre. I haven't read it yet.
I read it a few years ago. I recommend it. Dispels the myth that they were bullied, no more than they bullied other kids.
I read it a few years ago. I recommend it. Dispels the myth that they were bullied, no more than they bullied other kids.
Yeah, I basically agree with this perspective. From the books & docs I've watched/read.. my impression is that the killers were not (uniquely) bullied.
They were motivated more by their resentment of feeling excluded. They felt like (self-described) outsiders, and were previously expressing that thru vandalism, etc. And when they were reported by another kid for their vandalism, it intensified their resentment of their lower social status(?)
I drive by that school twice a week. So insane that I was in Miami when it happened. Now I live less than 2 miles from it. The memorial is very nice.
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