The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN. Here's what we know so far.
No, they would report on your leftist politics. Corporate media is forbidden to report that the shooter was indoctrinated in far right ideology and hate.
I’ve often wondered if there is a correlation between middle aged blokes who jet ski and middle aged blokes who murder their families.
Jet-skiing can’t be that popular, so maybe we should just preemptively imprison any male over 35 who does this?
I’m surprised the FBI haven’t investigated this.
Most of the school shooters have been the bullies. Claiming that they killed people because they were once bullied amounts to the lowest form of victim blaming.
Hell, I kinda doubt these first anecdotes about this kid. People know what to say to get on the news.
I mean they were begging a guy who went to school with him to say the killer was bullied but he basically said that the dude was every guy in high school who wasn’t the quarterback
In this case, though, it was racist/misogynist-on-racist/misogynist violence. There’s an argument to be made for letting them settle this among themselves.
And it’s interesting that nobody has pointed out the key problem: if Trump had been carrying a gun this never would have happened
I note you said "kid" there, and it might be that. Focus on his childhood, get people to think of him as even younger than he was, so young that he couldn't really have been responsible, just a kid acting out, quite random, tra la.
I'm not excusing him, and I'm trying to work out how you got that. I think the press are doing this, in the way that it's common to play down terrorism when committed by white people. I don't think you're making those excuses! But I noticed that you were calling him "kid", and I think I have too.
Remember, “repeatedly being reminded of the rules, disregarding threats of consequences, then having those consequences arise” is the same as “being bullied.”
Reminder that “they were victims of bullies” was also a Columbine call, and it turned out that no, not only weren’t they victims, Harris was a significant bully himself and Klebold went along with it.
That’s not true.
There was one, low quality study in 2018 that seemed to suggest it, and of course the media ran with it, but 40 years of research says they’re over-confident, arrogant, and lack respect for others, and the low quality study has never been repeated.
The study I saw once found that school bullies tended to have healthy self-esteem, high confidence and strong social skills. This was generally a major factor in what made them effective bullies in the first place.
I could swear there's a common pattern where these people are presented this way, and it later turns out they were actually very off-putting or otherwise awful, which elicited the response that news reported as "bullying"