Kip Kinkel Character Analysis
Kip Kinkel Summation Imagine having to live with a mental illness which took control of your actions by giving you hallucinations of voices in your head. Kip Kinkel had to live with paranoid schizophrenia for a large part of his life. Kip Kinkel was a good kid before he fell victim to the debilitating mental disorder. On May 20th and the 21st of 1998, the voices in Kip Kinkel’s head convinced and forced him to Kill his Father and Mother. The next day, Kip’s voices persuaded Kip to go to his Thurston High and shoot students in it. Kip Kinkel had a very troubled childhood with his family, which could be a factor in developing paranoid schizophrenia. Kip’s first real firearm was given to him by his parents at the age of twelve. Kip was
able to grow an arsenal of weapons which were all supplied by Kip’s father. In Kip’s arsenal, he has a semi-automatic rifle, sawed-off shotgun, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, all of which were supplied by Kip’s father. In an interview with a psychiatrist after the crime, when asked about why he shoot students in Thurston High, Kip said “I had to, I had no other choice, I had to.” Kip did not want to murder all the people he did, but his mental disorder coerced and eventually forced him to do so. Kip should be held not criminally responsible by the courts because at the time of the time of the crime, Kip was suffering from a mental disorder. Kip Kinkel should only be put in a psychiatric facility to undergo medical and clinical treatment and should be released when he is successfully treated. Much like the people Kip harmed, Kip too is a victim, he is a victim of paranoid schizophrenia which forced Kip to kill those people.
able to grow an arsenal of weapons which were all supplied by Kip’s father. In Kip’s arsenal, he has a semi-automatic rifle, sawed-off shotgun, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, all of which were supplied by Kip’s father. In an interview with a psychiatrist after the crime, when asked about why he shoot students in Thurston High, Kip said “I had to, I had no other choice, I had to.” Kip did not want to murder all the people he did, but his mental disorder coerced and eventually forced him to do so. Kip should be held not criminally responsible by the courts because at the time of the time of the crime, Kip was suffering from a mental disorder. Kip Kinkel should only be put in a psychiatric facility to undergo medical and clinical treatment and should be released when he is successfully treated. Much like the people Kip harmed, Kip too is a victim, he is a victim of paranoid schizophrenia which forced Kip to kill those people.