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Bucky

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1. One common false trope about gun violence is that it's bullying victims who do the shooting
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 10:18 AM
Jun 2022

But more often than not, it's the bullies who do most of the shootings. Now the majority of them are victims of bullying, of course, from earlier on in life. But the reality is that, although the victim "having had enough" and finally striking back is a more compelling narrative, the habit of harming other people usually needs to be built up over time before someone is emotionally capable of pointing a gun and squeezing a trigger

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