Kip Kinkel Research Paper

Kip Kinkel

I believe that there were several different things that were contributing factors to why Kipland Kinkel killed both his parents, and later two of his fellow peers. I do not think that there is one specific thing that can be blamed for Kip's behavior, but multiple things worked together to cause Kip's explosion. One of the smaller reasons that effected Kip was the somewhat confusing messages that his parents gave him as a child about guns. Kip had always as a child had a fascination with guns and explosives, but according to his sister there was a absolutely no violence policy in the Kinkel household, which forced Kip to his explosives and information from other sources. On Kip's 12th birthday, his father gave in and Kip
I think that the age difference between Kip and his parents greatly affected the outcome of Kip and his behavior. Since his parents were around 14 and 15 a lot has changed and I don't think that they could keep up with how fast Kip was growing up and how he was acting. When his sister still lived at home, I think she acted very much as an equalizer. When Kip would do something wrong, his sister would be the one to talk to the parents and tell them to look at some of the things that their students have done, and it helped them to realize that what Kip did really wasn't that bad. When she moved away must have been very difficult on Kip because he was all alone now with no one to give him a hand. I think that his parents started to really buckle down, and Kip was able to feel the walls kind of closing in on him as his privileges narrowed down. His parents then began to push him into activities that they enjoyed doing, in hopes that Kip would find an interest besides guns and explosives. But that was unsuccessful. Than, when Kip started to show interest in karate, his parents are not very encouraging. I think that this was also another thing caused by the age difference. His parents didn't see the need for Kip to be joining karate, it was violent as well. He should be doing something like tennis...what they liked. One thing that had a very big impact on Kip's life growing up was probably his learning disability. He suffered from dyslexia