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As a person who wears mostly black, hated high school, listens to metal, and shoots guns, I feel my brethren are giving us a bad rap what with all the school shootings. I mean this current guy and I pretty much watch exactly the same movies and love the same books.
So I have a new freelance service. I will come to your high school and hang out. I will turn the metalheads onto metal that happened after 1997 and outside of Germany. I will chat with them about how there is no god, and how jocks suck, and how cool conspiracy theories are. And then I will show them the Anarchist’s Cookbook, and tell them about the old days when we had to go to the library to learn to make a pipe bomb. I will chat about French existentialism. I will also give them some punk rock because oddly, punk rockers never really fuck up the establishment. And then I will snitch. I will tell you, after five minutes which of these kids is your school shooter. Because it is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS. It’s social profiling. I might even be able to read a few blogs and tell you. And then I will also point out the “cool kids” who are totally forcing the metalhead’s hand to blow up the school.
On the grounds that they are both held equally responsible.
It’s good to see the education system in other countries is making kids just as miserable as it is here!
8 Comments so far
1. amy wrote on November 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Huh, I like a lot of those movies too. It’s kind of hard to picture a Monty Python fan going on a kill crazy rampage, but who knows?
2. jennybento wrote on November 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I agree! You are all individuals!
3. Vanessa wrote on November 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
He had burgeoning David Lynch hair, too. Sure, it was in the fetal stage of development…but you could really see the potential.
4. Stephanie wrote on November 7th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Would you have selected Tom O’Malley as a shooter? If so, do you think he was the result of mean jocks? I ask because he seemed to be unpleasant from birth.
5. jennybento wrote on November 7th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
That is a good point. He is TOTALLY our HS’s shooter. I think that’s due to family issues tho. And weird Nazi propaganda. I think love of Nazis is a BIG RED FLAG.
Also I think his jock issues were more prevalent in grade school.
6. jennybento wrote on November 7th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
also i think there’s 2 types of shooters:
1. purely crazy (tom, college bell tower types)
2. outcast who keeps being picked on (most everyone in high school shootings)
7. Stephanie wrote on November 8th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Are shooters the quieter guys who keep their anger inside? Or are they the ones who lash out a lot? Tom was always verbally assaulting people. He may have minorly physically assualted a few that I don’t know of. He was so puney, though, that he’d probably easily get is ass kicked.
8. jenny wrote on November 8th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Yeah his lashing out is the main reason I would think of him as a lone belltower guy as opposed to a small group of school shooters who are fairly quiet.