Is it normal to identify with school shooters
Just wondering if it’s normal I feel crazy but is it normal
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nopurpose
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Tommythecaty
That’s a long held but but false concept. The media really did some damage with that one.
They are rarely bullied people. They are either intolerant assholes that make NO attempt to fit in and feel rage as a result. Compiling complaints and anger against others while simply expecting the world to fix their issues.
Or the worst case scenario, and much rarer, they are psychopathic egomaniacs like that fuck stain Eric Harris. Yeah, a guy who called a nerdy kid four eyes for needing glasses before shooting him dead is really relatable.
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SwickDinging
The media has done so much damage in regards to school shooters, that I would go as far as to say that it is the biggest contributing factor in them these days.
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Tommythecaty
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nopurpose
I was speaking my own truth. I was bullied and wanted to stage a massacre to my tormentors, just couldn't get hold of any gun
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Tommythecaty
That may be.
But there’s only one objective truth, and the truth is they don’t kill bullies. And that stupid notion of them being picked on and doing so in retaliation has done a lot of harm.
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nopurpose
What school shooters' stories dis you pick to make this assumption? Most I've read about were weird kids gang-bullied by almost everyone. There's an Estonian movie called Klass (The Class). Watch it, it's based on a true story, and quite well made.
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Tommythecaty
I’ve seen it, it is good. But it’s just a fictional movie, and not at all based on anything factual. It did however possibly encourage a shooting after some idiot watched it. Again, media is harmful when viewed by these kooks.
Go read a book or two on school shootings or on causes of mass homicide. Dave cullen’s Columbine is a good one to see how these things more often occur in depth. School shooters are no different than adult mass murderers, the overwhelming majority do it for the same reasons.
They’re assholes who blame everyone but themselves for not fitting in, or for life no going the way they demand. They have basically just like incels (some actually were) who get mad at all women for the world not handing them a supermodel.
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LonniePon
In what way do you identify with them? My answer is most likely still going to be no, this isn’t normal. But I’m genuinely concerned.
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RoseIsabella
I think it's quite common for people who were bullied in school to identify with school shooters.
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bbrown95
In what ways do you feel you identify? Do you feel like you are bullied or feel like a misfit, and identify with the anger and resentment they felt toward their classmates?
I think as long as you don't justify their actions in your head, or much worse, plan to seek similar revenge on your own classmates, it's normal. A lot of people who were bullied in school and felt they didn't fit in can relate to how the shooters probably felt before snapping. However, shooting up your school is definitely a very extreme and inappropriate way of dealing with those feelings.
Just please don't become one of those "Columbiners" or whatever they call themselves, a.k.a. someone who romanticizes famous school shooters' actions and them as people. At least back when I was in high school, there was actually a group of people online that went by "Columbiners" and had an unhealthy obsession with the Columbine killers, even going as far as to fantasize about them and write fanfics about them and how they were just misunderstood nice guys. It was very creepy.
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Hi62727281
I’m so angry so bitter but at the same time I don’t care and I can’t feel guilt anymore
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bbrown95
Are you being bullied in school?
What grade are you in? If you can just make it long enough to graduate, I promise you life will get so much better after high school. Kids can be very cruel and don't realize the impact their actions and words have on people, and they're also extremely insecure and don't really know how to act. What they are doing to you has a lot more to do with their insecurity than it does about you, something I wish I would've known when I was being bullied in school.
Harming or killing your classmates is not worth the prison time or the horror you will inflict upon your family (and how they will likely be shamed for several years), and I seriously hope you aren't contemplating suicide. When I tell you that things get so much better after high school, I mean it. School absolutely SUCKED for me, but now I'm surrounded by much better people and living a great life. It is worth just getting through what school you have left, then you will likely never have to see most of those people again (and you will be surprised, some will change and become much better people, and karma will absolutely hit those who don't like a Mack truck; I have been watching it happen for the past 6 1/2 years since I graduated).
If you are being bullied, have you spoken with teachers and the school counselor about it? How about your family? The school should be putting a stop to that behavior and punishing those kids. But, if they are not aware of the situation in the first place, there is nothing they can do about it.
Just don't do anything you might regret, and try your best to not let those kids get to you (I know, much easier said than done). They don't deserve the power over you to cause you so much bitterness, anger, and misery. In fact, that is likely the result they are wanting, and the only way they can feel better about themselves.
If the school has been made aware of the situation on multiple occasions and seems complacent, it may be worth looking into transferring elsewhere, or even finishing up your high school education online (especially if you are a senior and don't have much longer to go), if it is causing you this much stress and unhappiness.
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my_life_my_way
I felt like that because I had no friends in school, you’ll get through it.
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