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In reply to the discussion: Why we keep having school shootings [View all]lynne
(3,118 posts)6. Bullies didn't exist before 1999?
Columbine was in 1999. Certainly bullies existed before then as I remember them all too well. Why didn't the pre-Columbine victims of bullies lash out? And why would they not only go after the bully but also after innocent kids as well?
I don't know. I'm asking. But I sure don't think that bullies are the main reason. If that were the case, school shootings would have begun decades ago when every kid over 12 owned a hunting rifle.
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Sure. Why not? Also, put the people who allowed them to get their hands on guns in prison.
onehandle
Jan 2013
#1
Yes, it was those mean old bullies at Sany Hook elementary that made Lanza go off,
MadHound
Jan 2013
#7
This is the appropriate place for increased mental health services in the schools.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#25
Most of the Mass Shootings are not because of Bullying, this was one case and the kid targeted those
JI7
Jan 2013
#28
The main reason why there is more violence in the U.S. is due to the high level of hate propaganda.
AdHocSolver
Jan 2013
#36
In the history of mass murder by teens in their schools there have been exactly
lunatica
Jan 2013
#42
"how many teens killing their fellow students - bullies or not? 4? 5? half a dozen? "- source here
green for victory
Jan 2013
#51