First off, let's start out with a little environmental psychology. Now, let's say that at your job, you went every day, pulled your weight, and came home. Now, what if you didn't get paid for that job? What if the things that the job brought you weren't readily apparent? What if you hated your job, but you were legally required to go to it? What if your job not only made you work there, but then sent work home for you to do, and if you didn't do it, you were in big trouble? What if there were guys that hung around the water-cooler that were totally immature, humiliated people that were different, and the boss didn't do a thing about it? What if those guys could insult you, push you against your cubicle, and people actually liked them for it? Sou

nds like a terrible job, right? Well, welcome to high-school.

My point is, that there were always kids who wanted to attack their school. The kids were always there, but shooting up your school wasn't the cause that it is today. And don't get me wrong, these are not selective killings. These are classified as terrorist attacks. Usually, the goal is to kill as many people as possible, and maybe to try to top Columbine. Almost always they will attempt to kill themselves or actually commit suicide in the process. Remind you of anything? Maybe the phrase 'suicide bombers' might mean something to you. People who are so singularly obsessed that they will take their own life so long as their mission is accomplished. Really, if you think about it, a school shooting is more of a suicide than a homocide. Those kids who shoot up their school always know that the moment they pull that trigger, their life is over in one way or another. Suicidal tendencies are observed characteristics in all the school shooters. They want the teasing/bullying to stop, and if they can make it end while sending a message to the rest of us and gaining national attention, then why would they only kill themselves?

On the news we consult all these 'experts' about why kids would want to do such a thing. Do you think those 'experts' know what it's like to be in that situation? I think the real experts are the kids themselves. Ask a kid why someone would want to come to school with a gun. The ones that pick on others would have no idea, of course, but the ones that get picked on will all give you the same answer.

It's sad, really, that in our society we can turn children into terrorists and then try to ignore the causes of the problems, instead going for circumstantial causes that have little effect. And its sad that something like this has to happen to op

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