Patterns in School Gun Shootings
-by Peter Kang
Have you noticed some of the characteristics in the kids who've recently taken a gun to school and shot at people? Not to make a generalization, but these kids are all white, they live in Hicksville: population the size of a mall on a Saturday, and they got some serious social problems. Personally, I find these Marilyn Manson loving fans detestable. I can believe now why they would do such a thing as to go into a school and take a few lives here and there.
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The first and foremost problem of these cases are the social lives of these kids. Besides the two young kids who shot at their school without much planning, the rest of the kids who committed these heinous crimes were very alike in their social behaviors. They were the anti-social, apathetic bunch who were interested in killing animals and dressing in a dead tone black all the time. These kids often experienced depression but showed it with peculiar behavior such as isolation and tinkering with weapons. They found joy in making death threats and predictions - which horribly became true as their rage accrued.

Now, here is the sentimental conclusion: I think that it is partly the fault of our society that these kids come to exist. They live most of their lives being shunned by the "cooler" kids, feeling anger in rejection. I can be blamed for the same crime in making these type of kids because they don't seem to fit in well in the first place, but we take that to another level by mockery and mental abuse. I guess when the kid in Kentucky fired into the group of praying kids, or the kid in Pennsylvania fired into the school's dance, years of being left out and rejected finally had to be released with a pull of a trigger.

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