Nobody reports they're getting bullied so it's going to be almost impossible to find "documentation" of bullying. Furthermore, in large schools like Columbine, most bullying that DOES get reported isn't catalogued - most people will just tell you to suck it up.
Constant bullying can fuck you up in the head much faster tha any drug on the market. You can't attribute this to video games or bad parenting, although they MAY be attributing factors, they are certainly not the cause. Constany bullying destroys who you are and how much respect you have for yourself. If someone has no respect for themselves and their own lives, how can you possibly expect them to have any respect for anyone else?
For the most part, kids who are bullied don't go around shooting up their schools, but for these two kids they reached their breaking point. It's a pitiful sight when we solely look at the end results of a crime and not why it happened. I'm not trying to justify the 2 boys' crimes, for they are unexcusable and heinous, but there was something so wrong with these kids that you can't just write it off to psychopathic tendencies. There was an underlying factor there, one which we will probably never know.
A play was written that sheds a whole lotta light on the subject, "Bang Bang, You're Dead" .
"For the most part it's a tale of a kid, Trevor, who gets picked on a lot a school. Not as much as he used to, because the year before he called in a phony bomb threat complete with a working bomb (minus anything that would actually explode). Because of this parents and teachers are afraid of him, and kids generally avoid him except for a group of outcasts called the "Trogs". As violence by the Jocks against the Trogs escalates, Trevor is the suspect for anything gone wrong, even though he didn't necessarily do anything. One teacher is willing to give Trevor the benefit of the doubt and casts him in a highly contraversial play about, what else? School shootings. It all comes to a head as some other students create a plan to bring guns to school and kill everyone in the cafeteria."
The play can be found here
http://www.bangbangyouredead.com/ .
If you're lucky enough to be able to find a copy of the made for TV movie based on the play, I sincerely advise you watch it if this is any topic that interests you. It's truely an eye opening film. The IMDB explanation of it can be found here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288439/ .
Last edited by TehSeraphim (2006-06-29 22:57:39)