To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/03/23 22:45
Subject: Fwd: Re: [K-list] Poll and "Kids With Guns"
From: Krystyna V.
On 2001/03/23 22:45, Krystyna V. posted thus to the K-list:
>At 11:11 PM 23/03/01, you wrote:
>>Unfortunate as it is that I find myself actually agreeing with CW, he has
>>picked this right from my heart and head. I have always believed these
>>poor kids feel they have no recourse in the daily struggles and tormenting
>>they recieve at school. It is only what one could consider a living hell
>>to deal with the intolerance and bullying most of these kids have endured
>>for years. Some may have come from a bad home or bad parenting. But most
>>of the bad parenting, more than likely came from the parents of the
>>children who terrorized and tortured these outcasts...all because they may
>>have been different in some small way.
>>I have thought of James Heverling everyday of my life since high school.
>>What this kid endured from the "jocks" and "preps" EVERY day must have
>>been unbearable.The lunches spent in the garbage cans in the cafeteria,
>>god forbid he have to use the bathroom and get caught in there. He would
>>spend the rest of teh day with toilet water soaked head and clothes.The
>>times he was hung from the balconies by his UNDERWEAR!! But he came back
>>everyday..and graduated.
>>I hope he made something wonderful of himself and put his high school
>>years FAR behind him.If this had been the way things were handeled back
>>then...it would not have been a gun from him..it would have been ALL of us
>>with a BOMB!! I wish parents could put their dislikes and predjudices
>>aside long enough to teach acceptance to their kids...even for the things
>>they themselves don't necessarily like.
>>Why blame these kids? Sure they know right from wrong, but what is being
>>DONE TO them is also wrong and no one will do anything to help them BEFORE
>>it is too late.Do you think that at the moment they are commiting these
>>horrible acts they are thinking about spending the rest of their lives
>>behind bars....or worse? No...because I believe to them, anything is
>>better than their daily life as it is.I'm sure many will disagree with
>>this, but keep in mind it's only my opinion.But it is coming from one who
>>felt a tremendous amount of anger as a child and I find it truly amazing I
>>myself never went that far.Our society is breeding this hatred, stronger
>>and deeper with every generation...and it's being perpetuated by the "role
>>models" and "those who will be remembered" for their abilities to
>>destroy.Not create.
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>>-K-
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>>The overriding message ..
>> from the government ..
>> from folklore ..
>> from many of the role models of our society ..
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>>We make heroes out of people with guns ..
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>> We practice a form of worship
>> of those who have died "guns blazing"
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>>within the convoluted psyche of a child
>> who has been made worth less ..
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>> lies the mantra ..
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>>"with a gun, people will notice me ...
>> If I shoot someone,
>> people will remember me ..
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>> I will be worth some thing .. "
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