School bullying a focus since shootings (Priceless...)

Ventura County Star ^ | May 5, 2007 | By Marjorie Hernandez

[perseid 67]

For the most part, loud people are stupid.

I group the people who claim mass murderers kill because they are crazy with the people who think mass murderers kill because they have been abused.

Andrea Yates used both groups to escape jail.

Some people can’t wrap their minds around the concept that murder is evil.

[af_vet_rr]

He was also a muslim.

So? Charles Whitman wasn't. Andrew Kehoe, the man who was responsible for the biggest mass murder at a school in US history wasn't.

Just accept the fact that there are people who are crazy. I know it's politically incorrect to say people are crazy these days, but there are crazy people and have always been crazy people going back to when we first came down from the trees. Sometimes they are able to hide it for a long time, even while planning their murders - Whitman prepared days, if not weeks in advance. Andrew Kehoe prepared up to a year in advance. They even knew it was wrong - Whitman wrote quite a bit about what he was doing was wrong and he knew it, but couldn't stop himself.

[perseid 67]

In your mind crazy person = murderer.

Sorry, I do not buy it.

[af_vet_rr]

And then there's the man can control everything idea. If we know what caused this, we can stop it. Liberals refuse to recognize that man is a creature.

Exactly. "Oh, if we ban guns or video games or movies, that'll stop this". BZZTT! Wrong, the worst school massacre in US history happened in 1927 and was done with dynamite, regardless of the fact that guns were much easier to acquire back then.

Liberals think that banning guns or video games or whatever will stop the problem. Not at all, all it does is shift things around - if somebody snaps and gets it in their head that have to kill, lack of a gun will not stop them.

[Ptarmigan]

I have notice some charactersitics of bullies.
-They often feel persecuted.
-They are cowards.
-They are often short fused and get angry easily.
-Many come from dysfunctional and/or broken down families, where abuse and addicition is common.

Cho Seung-Hui sounds more like a bully to me. I read he hit his sister. He also stalked those two girls at VA Tech. Stalking is considered bullying. Bullying can also be in the family and many of it is because of it.