Cause And Effect Essay On School Shootings

School Shooting Many things can cause school shootings, bullying is one major cause and one person bullying another can lead to a lot of people getting hurt. So however horrific, the actions of other schoolyard gunmen such as Kip Kinkel or Luke Woodham can be readily understood as stemming from individual pathologies and, hence, not particularly reflective of broader social issues. In contrast, the Columbine shootings can be seen as implicating not only the killers' own sick, twisted minds, but a school culture which humiliated and tormented them in ways that are all too familiar to most Americans.
The result has been a highly uncomfortable—but strangely understandable—empathy for Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. When Newsweek quotes a classmate saying that the two walked the halls of Columbine "with their heads down, because if they looked up they'd get thrown into lockers and get called a 'fag,'" who doesn't exactly understand the anger and frustration such abuse inspires? When Time reports that they were routinely physically threatened and taunted as "dirt bags" and "in-breeds," who doesn't feel a twinge of outrage on their
was a state champ in the high jump, and the leading scorer on the track team, so I was not quite the outcast that some geeks are, but I understand what they are going through." Or, as another wrote, "I was much like those kids when I was in school weird, cast out, not much liked, alienated, all that sort of thing. I used to imagine bringing weaponry to school and making the fuckers who made my life miserable beg for