Subj : Re: Gun Insurance
To   : Arelor
From : Moondog
Date : Fri Jul 15 2022 02:59 am

  Re: Re: Gun Insurance
  By: Arelor to Dumas Walker on Thu Jul 14 2022 06:38 pm

 >   Re: Re: Gun Insurance
 >   By: Dumas Walker to GAMGEE on Thu Jul 14 2022 04:14 pm
 > 
 >  > > No argument there.  I may have been thinking more along the lines of
 >  > > "school shooters" when I said that.  In that sub-category, I think the
 >  > > crazies dominate.
 >  >
 >  > Until the urge to become famous because so prevalent, I think a lot of
 >  > these mass shooter kids would have been the ones that committed suicide
 >  > when I was high school aged.  Now they shoot a bunch of other people firs
 >  >
 > 
 > If I found my school was ruining my life to the point I wanted to die, then
 > setting the school on fire with everybody who I thought was ruining my life
 > inside would look reasonable. Perpretators of school massacres have this
 > tendency to kill themselves as a final act of victory too: they kill themsel
 >  so society is deprived of the delight of keeping on hurting them.
 > 
 > The fact there is so much school violence should point out the fact that
 > schools are structured as stressful places in which people is broken past th
 > point of no return. I never see anybody talking about this.
 > 
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 > gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
 > 
I was a misfit in school, and had my share of friends I thought were my
friends.  I had real friends as well, but very few.  I was smart, but didn't
fall in with the popular cliques, and found myself the target of being
bullied and picked on by older kids.  Nice thing about the few friends I had
was they had me covered.  Instead of being singled out in a hallway, a jerk
wouldn't bother me if there was someone else with me.

While I hated being treated like crap by bullies, I never had thoughts of
killing anyone.  Coming back later in life and making them miserable sounded
more fun.  For a millisecond I entertained the thought of burning down the
school.  I never would do such a thing, but I realized if i burned it down,
another school would be built or the cliques and other BS in schools would be
relocated elsewhere.

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