This hits me that everyone is pushed around at one time or another in their lives. Why is it our kids today go to the extremes we never did.??
In our youth we had to either fight back or take it and hope it would go away in time.
Today's kids that are jacked up for lunch money, have to listen to insults and derision from class mates, go home and take out their frustration with the video games they play. 3 hours of shooting and killing the bad guys, gaining points in the game help.
The games lower the kids attitude on mayham and death, little by little the kids are becoming immune to blood and gore. Soon the game enemy's are replaced by in their own mind with the kids that are taunting them.
We Adults never had this outlet to go home and kill our enemy's except in our mind.
Kids today can go home and control their hate, so comes the time when things get just too hard for them they find a weapon and go after their tormentors as they have done for weeks or months in a video game. The boundary between the game and real life has been broken, No longer do they feel anykind of sympathy or compassion for the tormentors, they have ceased to be human for them, they are like the characters they kill over and over again on a video game.
We are raising a generation of kids that play for hours killing maiming and watching blood spatter with no feeling but accomplishment at winning a game. It is no wonder why kids after spending hours and hours destroying an enemy on a video game begin to think about destroying their real life enemy's.
It is no coincidence that all these school killings became epidemic at the time the violent video games came on the scene. Sure we had every few years a problem with the lone Wolfe's that carried out bad things. However this rise in kids that retaliate against the Bully's is new and if not the videos they play, then what, why.????