Coincidentally, Dr. Thompson is not the only psychologist talking on the topic Tuesday. In the Littleton school shootings, people blame the parents and violence in the media. There are five risk factors that set you up for this. We don't know what it was in the Littleton case, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't something. The second factor is that you're tormented by your peers.
Boys are very hard on each other.
They attack each other, not as much physically as verbally, about who's cool and who's athletic. We think it makes boys tough. What it does is it scars them emotionally. The third factor is you are saturated with images of media violence where aggression is glorified. Then you have the emotional miseducation of boys.