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Ohiogal

(31,669 posts)
Thu May 31, 2018, 07:57 AM May 2018

Emulating Columbine

"Interviews with law enforcement officials, educators, researchers, students and a gunman’s mother, as well as a review of court documents, academic studies and the writings of killers and would-be killers, show that the school-shooting copycat syndrome has grown more pervasive and has steadily escalated in recent years. And much of it can be traced back to the two killers at Columbine, previously ordinary high school students who have achieved dark folk hero status — their followers often known as “Columbiners” — in the corners of the internet where their carefully planned massacre is remembered, studied and in some cases even celebrated.

Investigators say school shootings have become the American equivalent of suicide bombings — not just a tactic, but an ideology. Young men, many of them depressed, alienated or mentally disturbed, are drawn to the Columbine subculture because they see it as a way to lash out at the world and to get the attention of a society that they believe bullies, ignores or misunderstands them."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/school-shootings-columbine.html?nl=top-stories&nlid=74838209ries&ref=headline

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Emulating Columbine (Original Post) Ohiogal May 2018 OP
Kicking to read later. n/t demmiblue May 2018 #1
K and r. Tipperary May 2018 #2
We have repeated the same actions--none--and dare to act surprised... Orsino May 2018 #3

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
3. We have repeated the same actions--none--and dare to act surprised...
Thu May 31, 2018, 11:07 AM
May 2018

...when nothing changes.

There certainly may be a copycat aspect to these crimes, but really, we have set up kill zones by freely handing out guns to sick people who can find their way to schools.

Do we accuse raccoons of emulating other raccoons who continue to knock over our trash cans?

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