Kids these days…
From *spark-online:
You couldn’t find two more different lives as far as their experiences go. Boy, girl. West coast, east coast. Public school, private Catholic school. Unisex, all-girl. Middle class, upper-middle class. Broken home, still married. Warm weather, cold weather. Wild shooting spree, calculated hit. 15 years old, 14 years old. But the result was the same: two completely abused, miserable, lonely, hopeless, ignored, shuffled, suicidal kids could take no more. Not another day. Williams not only profusely shared his plan to shoot up his school (while recanting it of course as a joke), saying he really didn’t want to go to school that day. Bush internalized her pain, so isolated that her plan included only herself.
I guarantee you this is the experience of Elizabeth Bush and Andy Williams and Dylan Klebold and all the others that came before and will make their mark in years to come.
The question is, will society ever start making an effort to stomp out the bullies and take THEM into examination? Will people start thinking before they have children, for whom they don’t have the mental or emotional capacity to care for, guide, and nurture? As long as the hard long arm of the law slams down on these minor-aged offenders, as long as the punks who tormented the victims appear on a thousand video clips declaring the evil of their victim’s acts, as long as the blame is placed on gun laws and only by whiff, the parents, these killings will continue.
What could have easily become my situation in High School, described very well. Some insight on why ‘kids these days’ seem more violent than ever.