Reply #126: I remember when I was 14, yes.

[Withywindle]

I shoplifted. I neglected to study. I sneaked alcohol. I got in fights at school. I stole money. I called my parents horrible names. I hit my mother a couple times. I was ruled by my emotions and did a lot of cruel and stupid things.

But even considering that I was bullied badly and there were a LOT of people at my school whose guts I loathed, I can honestly say that the idea of taking a gun to school and putting it to the back of one my classmates' heads and pulling the trigger never even occurred to me as a remote possibility. Hell, my father had guns (law enforcement) and I knew where he kept them, and still...nope. Even bratty, fucked-up, bad-seed teenagers usually have a sort of built-in humanity switch against KILLING PEOPLE execution-style for no good reason.

I think people who don't have that 'switch' need to be locked up for many, many decades because if they've done it once, they'll do it again if they can. I don't care how old they are. I really, really don't.