I think bullying breeds school-shooters

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The vast majority of school shooters in America were badly bullied before they decided to shoot-up the school. That can't be a coincidence, can it? Well, to be fair, most bully victims will never do any harm. However, if a bully victim is mentally ill, bullying can be a trigger that unleashes a school shooter. So that combination, mental issues + being a victim of bullying, that is what breeds school-shooters.

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1WeirdGuy

2 years ago

Kids will always bully eachother. Kids are dicks.

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- donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
  
  2 years ago
  
  school administrations that turn a blind eye or punish for fightin back are worse than dick kids
  
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  - 1WeirdGuy
    
    2 years ago
    
    I saw this video one time of some black kids mom coming on a bus and confronted her sons bully and slapped the shit out of him. It was nice to see. She got in a hella lotta trouble tho
    
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Bobtailcatgirl

2 years ago

People should more to stop bullying. Teachers don't do nothing.

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- RoseIsabella
  
  2 years ago
  
  The victims of bullying need to learn how to defend themselves.
  
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  - Bobtailcatgirl
    
    2 years ago
    
    Yes i agree
    
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      2 years ago
      
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  - 12345678912
    
    2 years ago
    
    Is that not victim shamming?( pretty sure i spelt that incorrectly, please don't bully me) It is not possible to 'learn' how to defend youself from.verbal assault. 'Defending' yourself from physical assault can lead to all sorts of problems. Either one can end up being seroiusly hurt. If the bully looses in a fight the other guy gets in trouble. It is not the way forward. I am very close to someone who was bullied from about 4 till 12, she would take so much and then loose it and batter the bully. Most of the time the children she battered were boys. She knew how much she would damage another girl and rarely battered girls. She was not big, average height and always at a weight disadvatage even with girls. She got in serious trouble at school(1st time was in kindergarten) parents called in suspended etc. Because she always came out on top and really hurt some bullies(boys) she was the one getting in troubke and suffering both ways. I woukd say if other people 'learned to defend' themselves the same thing would happen. That is not the answer.
    
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    - Bobtailcatgirl
      
      2 years ago
      
      I was bullied as teen and i had to stick up for my self because noone else would teachers didn't care.
      
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      - 12345678912
        
        2 years ago
        
        Yes thats what usually happens even noadays. I hope its all behind you now.
        
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    - RoseIsabella
      
      2 years ago
      
      I studied Tae Kwon Do as a teenager, and I haven't been in any real fights since then. I was honestly only in about four fights as a child, and I barely remember anything about those fights. Studying martial arts just gave me a more profound sense of confidence, and a certain sense of peace in the knowledge that I could take a punch if I ever needed to do so.
      
      Maybe this person you are talking about has psychiatric, neurological, or otherwise unspecified emotional problem? Life isn't always about one size fits all solutions. Maybe what this person you're talking about needs is anger management classes/therapy? I'm sorry this person you know has been bullied a lot, but the situation you've described sounds rather outside the norm.
      
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      - 12345678912
        
        2 years ago
        
        So you said "learn how to defend themselves" speaking of the victims of bullying.
        The person i was talking about was able to defend herself but was the child who got in trouble simply because she did what you recommended.
        
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        RoseIsabella
        
        2 years ago
        
        I can probably defend myself, but I don't go around starting fights. Knowing how to defend myself gives me confidence, and a sense of inner peace.
        
        Maybe your friend had a mental illness, or a neurological problem.
        
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raisinbran

2 years ago

Every child should be armed. They need to ban concealed carry and age limit laws, and they need to start manufacturing smaller pistols so toddlers can handle the recoil and not have the gun smack them in the face.

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- GaelicPotato
  
  2 years ago
  
  I agree. Systematically wipe out one of the worlds dumbest countries, I love it.
  
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Ummitsstillme

2 years ago

Western Euro, Australian, and first world Asian middle/upper class kids stab their classmates. I think the common denominator for school violence beyond being 1st world and of privalege and being bullied is they're virtually always on ssris.

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Ghostface

2 years ago

i mean it's true

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Voray

2 years ago

It's not the bullying, it's the mental illness and other issues. And some aren't even mentally ill. The Columbine shooters weren't bullied, contrary to the popular belief. Dylan Klebold even went to his prom and got into college.

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- bones12345
  
  2 years ago
  
  Voray. Nailed it right there. People. Today are way to sensitive..these school shootings that happen. Because they are mentally sick. Sick in the head. Your wrong about the Colorado kids they were bullied and laughed at. They were sick in the head plus we now have socail media Etc. etc rick
  
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Rocketrain

2 years ago

Some yes some don't
2019 florida shooter he just wanted to be famous on school shooting trend. He recorded a video saying he is going to be the next shooter and he will be knows on news and famous afterwards. When he got captured he already had plans how to act it's not his fault and pretend he is mentally ill which is failed and made a fool out of him. The whole interigation video is on youtube it is hilarious how he try to claim he has a voice in his head said to do the killing. Which he fail to act out.

But the bullying is a real deal. No one take any action against the bullies but when the victim explode in a harmful way everyone is blaming them. I also agree that schools don't do anything about bullying. The reason of high rate of bullying is b because there are no action against bullies.

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GaelicPotato

2 years ago

The biggest factor is that there's guns in almost every household, which shouldn't even be a thing to begin with.

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YE

2 years ago

Bad parenting, social anxiety, mental instability, marginalization, shame, frustration, drug abuse and alcoholism, isolation, desperation, anger, climate change, (which means the general understanding of an individual's anger is subject to ambiguity.) And lastly, society's denial of the etiquette of committing suicide.

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olderdude-xx

2 years ago

Bullying is just one part of a many piece puzzle as to why people go on shooting rampages (in school or out of school).

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RoseIsabella

2 years ago

I was a weird new waver chick, and after I started martial arts I felt to much better dealing with other people.

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Meowypowers

2 years ago

Are they always bullied? I guess but I think isolation is a big factor.

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[Old Memory]

2 years ago

A lot of school shooters weren't even necessarily bullied; some of them, such as the Columbine shooters, were remembered as bullies themselves by some of the people who lived through the shooting.

Kimveer Gill was generally remembered as a guy of medium popularity in high-school, but he still proceeded to spend much of his twenties obsessing over "jocks" and he fixed this decidedly adolescent fixation of his by shooting up a college.

Bullying probably plays some sort of role, but I don't think it's as clear as people think.

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Boojum

2 years ago

So because there has literally _never_ been a case of a disaffected teen shooting up a school in the UK, that must mean bullying never happens in Britain?

Oh, wait...

There just might be another reason for that...

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  2 years ago
  
  Bullying + Mental illness + easy access to guns
  
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  - Boojum
    
    2 years ago
    
    That equation I will agree with.
    
    What you do regularly hear of in the UK are cases of kids committing suicide due to bullying. I'm sure that happens in the States (and lots of other countries) as well.
    
    One of the huge problems with guns is that they're so damn easy to use if you feel that you can't cope with your life.
    
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    - 1WeirdGuy
      
      2 years ago
      
      Out of the potentially 400,000,000+ guns in America (they have no idea how many there are but anywhere from 340m to 400m they think) only 6,000,000 of those are registered. So that means 394,000,000 guns are floating around with no paper trail. They dont know who has them. Theres no way to stop guns in America at this point without kicking in doors nationwide.
      
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    - Ummitsstillme
      
      2 years ago
      
      Boojum you mentioned you were an American Navy man, did you relocate to the UK because of your disdain for firearms?
      
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      - Boojum
        
        2 years ago
        
        The reasons were a lot more complicated and tediously boring to anyone else.
        
        It was a very long time ago now, but I don't recall concerns about America's gun-culture ever crossing my mind. However, that was in a time when firearms weren't a huge issue in a clash of cultures and general political perspectives like they are today.
        
        I've never owned a gun, but I've known lots of people who did. (In fact, in the distant past, one of my uncles was raided by Feds when they somehow discovered he'd accumulated more than a hundred guns and they were a bit concerned about what he was doing with them.) Obviously the military tends to attract lots of people who are comfortable around firearms, and I knew a few guys who were really into them. So I think I have some understanding of the mindset of gun-nuts, and I do understand the gut-level appeal of firearms.
        
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Tommythecaty

2 years ago

No, not at all.

Learn about mass murder and the development of such people. It has nothing to do with bullying and these people don’t just snap.

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- RoseIsabella
  
  2 years ago
  
  The guy who did the shooting at University of Texas had a brain tumor, it was revealed post-mortem.
  
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  - Tommythecaty
    
    2 years ago
    
    Whitman, yeah he sure did Rose.
    
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    - RoseIsabella
      
      2 years ago
      
      Yep.
      
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