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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its funny, because we keep looking at the bullying aspect of things as the identifiable reason why this kid did what he did. And I'm not trying to minimalize things here, but I'm sure that since the dawn of time, there have been millions or 10's of millions of people bullied, and some out right viciously, and yet we've had, what 20 shootings of this type and magnitude since the late 70's, and not a lot before that.
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But how many people are killed by victims of bullying every year? Just because kids who get bullied don't all go out and shoot 10+ people, doesn't mean there are more bullying related killings in the world. It just means that they aren't of this magnitude. Not to say you're wrong, but if even one person is killed because they bullied someone, isn't that one too many?
The entire magnitude of society has changed... everything needs to be bigger and better than the last model. Why should killings be any different? (That sounds really callous, and it's not meant to be, I'm just also hypothesizing about why these events are getting larger and larger.)