So Ramos was a loner, bullied because of his poverty status. A rant.

[H2O Man]

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You raise some interesting points for discussion, with a couple of errors. If he had dropped out of school, of course, he wouldn't have been angry that he had not graduated a day (or days) with his class. "Poverty" is relative, of course, and over half of the students at the school were reportedly from low-income families. One might speculate that most of those students could not afford the two guns this guy did on his 18th birthday. And dispite initial attempts by the media to make sense of Columbine, those two were not bullied.

But more importantly, we are at a point where almost every public school (and community) has at least one young man who inhabits the margins. Most will not engage in mass murder. But some will, and there is ample reason to think that the escalation in mass shootings will continue to gain steam in the near future. While most people are troubled by yesterday's horror, and feel for the many victims, dead and alive, there are those who identify with the killer as they watch the news.