Columbine
It's hard for me to properly put into words what I want to say, so bear with me here.
Today is the sixth anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. You don't often see me acknowledging these sort of things, and I hope everyone on my friends list isn't going to care. This is a one-off.
It may have happened 6 years ago, but people still want to know why. It is a question that will probably never get answered, as afterall, none of us are at the point of murder and we can't claim to understand other people's minds or reasoning. So I guess we'll never truly understand why Eric and Dylan did it, or what they were thinking. But in a moment of speculation, I would like to put forward that perhaps it could have been easily stopped, THEY could've been saved. And in six years - not a thing has changed (Referring to the recent school shooting)
Most people believe they were mentally wrecked to begin with. I think, that these tendecies emerged, from two boys who had been rejected one too many times and had suffered constant mistreatment. Most people forget they were young - and teenagers minds are fragile, their hopes are easily broken and these two in particular seemed to endure it too much without any support from anyone. I can't claim to know what tipped these two over the edge, but I'm particularly interested in them (without condoning their actions) because I too, went through the exact same thing and would like to think that to some degree at least, could relate to their feelings of alienation and despair, and genuine hopelessness. Video games, media, whatever you want to blame had no influence on their actions. No matter how easy those answers are, they're not going to help to understand why and they're surely not going to prevent it happening again.
So this entry is basically in memory of all those who died at Columbine High School, as none of them deserved to die, and it was an awful thing to happen. Cassie Bernall, Rachel Scott, Steven Curnow, Isaiah Shoels, Matt Kechter, Kelly Flemming, Lauren Townsend, Corey DePooter, John Tomlin, Dave Sanders, Daniel Rohrbough, Daniel Mauser and Kyle Velasquez.
But this especially in memory to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who had extreme potential in life, but did what they did, and thus lost their lives too. They were victims too, afterall. And I think society has a big part in what happened, whether we choose to accept that or not.
(I try to make it as unbiased as possible, even though most people know my standpoint of it)
Today is the sixth anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. You don't often see me acknowledging these sort of things, and I hope everyone on my friends list isn't going to care. This is a one-off.
It may have happened 6 years ago, but people still want to know why. It is a question that will probably never get answered, as afterall, none of us are at the point of murder and we can't claim to understand other people's minds or reasoning. So I guess we'll never truly understand why Eric and Dylan did it, or what they were thinking. But in a moment of speculation, I would like to put forward that perhaps it could have been easily stopped, THEY could've been saved. And in six years - not a thing has changed (Referring to the recent school shooting)
Most people believe they were mentally wrecked to begin with. I think, that these tendecies emerged, from two boys who had been rejected one too many times and had suffered constant mistreatment. Most people forget they were young - and teenagers minds are fragile, their hopes are easily broken and these two in particular seemed to endure it too much without any support from anyone. I can't claim to know what tipped these two over the edge, but I'm particularly interested in them (without condoning their actions) because I too, went through the exact same thing and would like to think that to some degree at least, could relate to their feelings of alienation and despair, and genuine hopelessness. Video games, media, whatever you want to blame had no influence on their actions. No matter how easy those answers are, they're not going to help to understand why and they're surely not going to prevent it happening again.
So this entry is basically in memory of all those who died at Columbine High School, as none of them deserved to die, and it was an awful thing to happen. Cassie Bernall, Rachel Scott, Steven Curnow, Isaiah Shoels, Matt Kechter, Kelly Flemming, Lauren Townsend, Corey DePooter, John Tomlin, Dave Sanders, Daniel Rohrbough, Daniel Mauser and Kyle Velasquez.
But this especially in memory to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who had extreme potential in life, but did what they did, and thus lost their lives too. They were victims too, afterall. And I think society has a big part in what happened, whether we choose to accept that or not.
(I try to make it as unbiased as possible, even though most people know my standpoint of it)