When students buckle under that weight, tragedies happen (the Columbine shootings; the recent spate of suicides among gay teenagers). B.S. The Columbine shoot

When students buckle under that weight, tragedies happen (the Columbine shootings; the recent spate of suicides among gay teenagers). B.S. The Columbine shootings weren't the work of bullied nerds. It was the work of two utter assholes. One guy was a cruel psychopath with a history of violence (pipe bombs, known but not followed up on), the other guy was a severely depressed loser who stupidly did whatever his 'friend' suggested. They weren't lashing out at anything. They intended to commit the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, and the only thing that stopped them was their own incompetence. Whoever wrote this article just perpetuated myths which reflect the standard views of society: that bullied outcasts are the types who become murderous assholes. If you have ever been been bullied, considered "weird," or an outcast, you owe it to your younger counterparts to help dispel this myth. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103234226 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1032342... There was hardly any real information following Columbine. Instead, noise was bounced around between journalists and bloggers. It was like a giant game of telephone. Soon, there was noise about bullying, about outcast kids, and even the dangers of first-person shooters. The scary thing is that none of this was based on facts, it was just social bias revealing itself in an echo chamber! Instead of following up on known violent tendencies (which would have prevented Columbine in the first place), misinformed school administrators across the country began targeting kids who were already the target of mistreatment by their peers. It's bad enough to have the stigma of the weird, nerdy kid, but to add arbitrary suspicions that you may be a murderer is unconscionable.