Posted on 04/20/2016 8:02:21 PM PDT by beaversmom
Lots of truth in what you said. Add a bit of mental illness, psychotropic drugs and/or ritalin, loneliness, no girlfriend (they all seem have these factors in common) and a small percent go off. Some commit suicide, some commit unspeakable crimes.
I remember the Swat Team did not go into the building for almost 3 hours after they arrived.
One wounded teacher and some students had locked themselves in a room and did communicate with responders on the outside. The students treated the teacher as best they could, but the teacher died after a considerable length of time.
I remember is how slow law enforcement reacted.
I'm not taking any excuses....
Columbine was evil embodied in two young men who by all accounts decided to live in their own little pitiful hateful world...
The media loves their psychobabble.
Utter nonsense.
Eric Harris was a sociopath at birth.
It’s that simple.
Read the book “Columbine” if one really wants to know what happened and why.
Boys will be boys. /s
Liberals and the media more concerned about motive and a reason to excuse than the actual event and the pain it leaves behind, typical
Wait 'til you see what happens when the competition starts in combat units for the few females - and the jealous losers in those situations are really well armed.
“In the strangely American phenomenon of mass shootings”
Perhaps talk to the people in Paris or Norway about this ‘strange American phenomenon’. And those countries have BIG TIME gun control...which was the purpose of the above wording.
Damaged masculinity helps to explain black male violence in the U.S. and the unbelievable cruelty of ISIS. The cause of the damage may differ but in each case manhood has in some way been compromised.
Parents who love themselves more than their kids contributes significantly.
Great read! Thanks for posting that link.
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