maybe it's the cynic in me but, did these teens bully the shooter and now feel partly responsible?The hog is really broken up about his schoolmate’s death, isn’t he?
We obviously need to outlaw suicide.
[David Hogg; @davidhogg111 How many more kids have to be taken from us as a result of suicide for the government / school district to do anything?]
Gee, I wonder if the incessant media coverage had anything to do with it.
Romeo and Juliet? I didn’t see anything to say whether there was a relationship between them or not.
Maybe I don’t understand the trauma and how it affects teens over time, but it’s hard to imagine why they think it solves anything.
May God have mercy on his soul.
Ungrateful. Get a second chance at life, and piss it away because you saw something bad happen. Snowflake culture never ends. This is the result of modern critical incident management training, where they’re surrounded with psychologist who encouraged them to follow in all their feelings.
maybe it's the cynic in me but, did these teens bully the shooter and now feel partly responsible?Why does the media quote Hogg as if he’s an authority figure on teen suicides? They’re embarrassing.
That’s wallow in their feelings. They do the same thing with soldiers coming back from the war now, sit around in circles and encounter groups, carefully digging as deep as they can into the feelings of everything they think. It’s damn unhealthy. Better off to treat it like a little kid who trips and falls and looks at you to see if they need to cry. Just ignore him, stuff it inside, and move on with life. Today, Society is like a bad parent that always jumps up and runs over to see how bad they were hurt, and then the little baby burst into tears.
The survivors were all sent to “counsellors” and diagnosed with phoney baloney psychiatric labels and then put on psychotropics. Suicides were inevitable. It’s how shrinks make their money.
If the suicide rate here isn’t any different from at other schools, then there is no story here (other than the general tragedy of suicide). It would be nice if the article - and the media in general - mentioned such obviously relevant background information, but they almost never do.
Strange. I remember two girls from our school murdered back in 1961. Never solved. No one committed suicide after.
In another school, we had a boy drown and a girl die of a disease. No one in school ever committed suicide over it.
Thinking back, I can’t remember anyone ever committing suicide because one of their friends died.
Sit down, “Camera” Hogg.
Uh ... what was the government/school district supposed to do, Dave?
Oh, goody. “President” Hogg gets to stand on the barely-cold body of his classmate to snatch himself another fifteen minutes.
Some will object to my assessment but I can’t help thinking when I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s if a school friend or friend died for any reason we would go to the funeral and move on. I think our society has raised some young people that can’t cope in other words snowflakes.
Two *suicides* eh?
What did they know and who did they talk to?
NEWSHOGG! How did YOU get into Harvard? We need an investigation!!
Hey Hog,take one for the team, you are sooo worthy.
Copycat suicide.