Have you noticed popular people never gun down their classmates?

[Vesayen]

3 kids arrested this week for when they broke into a car, supposedly they were planning to "pull a columbine".

I remember when Columbine happened, I kept my opinion to myself, as I doubted many people shared it.......

I am SURE a degree of mental instability is involved in people who do these kinda things, but I dont think thats all of it, or even the determining factor.



When I was young I had a speech impediment and supposedly a case of ADD(wonder why in other threads I think medicating children is wrong in 99% of the cases? now you know)....

Needless to say I was mercilesly taunted and tortured throughout all of my younger school years, till my last year of middle school I kept entirley to myself because I was so sick of other people harrasing me. I dont think I had a real friend till I was 14(note at end*). I was always big(and still am) so I was never physically harmed, but I was insulted every day. I'm sure some other apolytonies experienced that...... being told your worthless 5 days a week for years upon years can do quite a bit to piss a person off.

I dont think alot of people realize how bad school tauntings can be, they are constant and unrelenting. I was lucky because I was big, if I wasent im sure there would of been a good deal of violence mixed in also. I cant think of anything worse then the taunting I experiened when I was younger, it truly seemed the ENTIRE world was against me.

I dont try to justify what school shooters have done, but I can ENTIRLEY see where they are coming from, and honestly, I personally feel MUCH more sympathy for them, then their victims, as I have been there.



Anyone else have any thoughts on the subject?














*When I was 13 I got a call from the office.... my mom told me over the phone my grandmother had died. I went to a bathroom stall and started to cry....... 2 of the "more popular"(clich leaders) kids in my school walked in and hear me, taunted me...... I snapped. Its worth noting I had taken martial arts since I was 8, I was always "big" but I also knew(and know still) how to fight quite well. I was always very patient... never attacked anyone before. I got sick of it and beat the living crap out of both of them. I suddenly had instant respect from most of the school and was no longer harrased.... beating up those jackasses was proboably the turning point of my life lol.

[Shi Huangdi]

Yes, I think you are correct.

[St Leo]

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[Imran Siddiqui]

Um... I think everyone knew this .

[JCG]

Indeed....I was a horribly unpopular guy in highschool, with no redeeming qualities (academic sucess doesn't count), and I've thus failed to kill all those little ***** that made my life hell back then (they all bet I would, though).

[Sava]

I think that bullying and verbal abuse at younger ages can **** people up for life.

[MRT144]

i just made fun of the popular kids with my friends that were crazy intelligent.

[Sava]

I wasn't in any cliques or anything. I had friends in all cliques and few enemies. The first week of my Freshman year in HS, I kicked the crap out of some junior who made fun of my name. I didn't have any more problems... although I was suspended 3 more times throughout high school for fighting. . I have a short temper and a big mouth. And I never lost a fight either.

[Boris Godunov]

Popular people may not be gunning down their classmates, but it certainly seems the elitist ones are the major catalysts for people doing so.

[geeslaka]

You can thank all the idiotic morons that taunted me in school for the fact that if I ever get a chance to destroy the human race I will without a second thought.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Popular people may not be gunning down their classmates, but it certainly seems the elitist ones are the major catalysts for people doing so.

I think that was his point, Boris.

[GePap]

I was lucky to go to a high school were there was no popular clique or outcats: no one cared about anything but their academic performances and resume padding.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Damn... GePap.. you were lucky

[st_swithin]

I went to a school that was mostly white (caucasoid) in a mostly white town, in a mostly white city.

Being not even remotely white, I didn't have that many friends.

The few I had generally got creeped out by me pretty quickly, so I've not had too many friends for significantly long periods of time.

I always thought of myself as that girl Lydia on Beetlejuice: unique, but misunderstood.

But life ain't a movie, and a rose by another name like "sh*t" would DEFINITELY cease to smell as sweet as soon as you delivered your first dozen cow pies to your potential sweetie.

Try that sometime - I can guarantee that it will get a reaction, if nothing else.

[geeslaka]

Another thing is that popular kids have to worry about hitting someone they like. Taunted kids don't.