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In reply to the discussion: Another school shooting. Another bully shot. Another victim in police custody. [View all]vaberella
(24,634 posts)101. There is no 'real or fake' victim. Get it together. Both parties were victims.
One set who were bullied for years without intervention. Told to suck it up and deal with another day or told to get over it. That is the life they were led to live. The other victims are some of whom who probably did victimize the shooters or some who probably watched and did nothing.
The first group didn't deserve to be bullied and the both sets didn't deserve to die. Intervention on bullying in the United States needed to be done decades if not centuries before. It's a culture of abusing those who are weaker than you. And sometimes those victims rise up in dangerous ways in order to end their torment.
Bullying is not something you just get over; it will affect you until the day you die.
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Another school shooting. Another bully shot. Another victim in police custody. [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Aug 2012
OP
There is no 'real or fake' victim. Get it together. Both parties were victims.
vaberella
Aug 2012
#101
While I don't approve of shooting anyone, the tormentors of the Columbine shooters
Flatulo
Aug 2012
#59
I was in the seventh grade in 1966. There was this big dumb fuck of a gym teacher
Flatulo
Aug 2012
#110
Wikipedia has both accounts - that they were bullied, and in turn bullied others
Flatulo
Aug 2012
#105
FWIW, I would bet anything that bullying predates the invention of the gun by millennia.
Stinky The Clown
Aug 2012
#13
You get the feeling a lot of schools out there are like "The Lord of the Flies"
reformist2
Aug 2012
#14
Adults are not modeling diffusion skills for kids in communities or at home
MichiganVote
Aug 2012
#61
I think it's ludicrous to make these sorts of conclusions about the victim who is in the hospital.
LisaL
Aug 2012
#55
So, Basically you are saying that the OP is a liar who pulled the summer bullying story
renie408
Aug 2012
#60
Police are saying they don't believe that vicitm was specifically targeted by the shooter.
LisaL
Aug 2012
#67
Where did you get that? I just read something that the police said it was a grudge
renie408
Aug 2012
#70