But Wednesday, he felt guilty. So the large, popular jocks would not only tease and torment these guys, they actually sought them out and fought them. News coverage about shootings like the one in Littleton, Colorado, seems to focus on how we help the survivors and friends and families of the victims and on how we can watch for signs that a student or students might be planning a violent act. Stories also talk about how we can try to prevent student from resorting to violence or how we can keep them from having access to guns. Other students hadn't liked them and had made fun of them and taunted them.
Chances are good that they encountered the same treatment after school, at church and at home.
For some students this goes day after day, week after week, year after year after year. They are forced, by law to keep going back to that environment. Then we say we don't understand why someone would take a gun to school and start shooting. I doubt Americans are going to stand for a total ban on guns. It's time we made school an accepting place where hostile acts and words are not tolerated.