Kip Kinkel

Every Year we hear about a school shooting, and every year it’s the same story a tormented teen takes out his anger, frustrations and pain out on his fellow students, teacher’s and sometimes even their own parents. In the next few paragraphs I will examine Kip Kinkel’s actions through Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology and finally my own personal thought. I will also have statements in his own words from his journal.

Kip Kinkel at a young age had psychological problems. Most of them started when he and his family went to live in Spain for a year. Kip being in the 1st grade and just learning English and being able to speak in English, was faced with a huge problem when his teacher could only speak Spanish, a language he couldn’t understand. The frustration that came from that experience and the never-ending frustration of trying to live up to the Kinkel name was too much for him. Kip had the perfect family however in his mind he didn’t fit because he wasn’t the perfect son, his sister was smart, athletic, popular and well known by their community, his parents were legends in their field of career’s as teachers. That left Kip feeling down and depressed all the time, even t

Anthropologically, Kip was surrounded and influenced by wild behaviour he listened to Aggressive Rock, bands like Nine Inch Nail, who’s hardcore lyrics could easily penetrate and stick in the minds of teens. Kip when writing his journals quite often referred to verses from songs to emphasize a point, like “God damn these VOICES inside my head”. The culture that he grew up was in itself pretty violent, his surroundings were full of guns, although his parents had a zero tolerance for violence, we find out that Kips dad owned a gun himself. He lived on the country side so most people owned guns for hunting, that is a big part of his downfall, he started to have a hypnotic fascination with guns, owning his first at age 12, maturity hasn’t even hit at that age and yet he has a gun, that’s ludicrous. The society he grew up in was relatively quite, however things like hunting and guns that is the norm for country folks is a bad combination with a 12 year old kid.

“I have just killed my parents! I don't know what is happening. I love my mom and dad so much. I just got two felonies on my record. My parents can't take that! It would destroy them. The embarrassment would be too much for them. They couldn't live with themselves. I'm so sorry. I am a horrible son. I wish I had been aborted. I destroy everything I touch. I can't eat. I can't sleep. I didn't deserve them. They were wonderful people. It's not their fault or the fault of any person, organization, or television show. My head just doesn't work right. God damn these VOICES inside my head. I want to die. I want to be gone. But I have to kill people. I don't know why. I am so sorry! Why did God do this to me. I have never been happy. I wish I was happy. I wish I made my mother proud. I am nothing! I tried so hard to find happiness. But you know me I hate everything. I have no other choice. What have I become? I am so sorry”

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