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If this kid turns out to be bullied, it has the same relevance as him playing call of duty. There are literally millions of bullied kids in the world and only some of them shoot up a school.
When columbine happened the media had this narrative about the kids being bullied and it being some kind of revenge on the school. They weren't bullied, they were just anti-social sadsacks and psychopaths. But the narrative probably inspired a couple of the following thousands of shootings.
You seem to have this strange view on bullying as if it can’t destroy a person. In fact people never recover from it. Some empathy is deserved here.
I have gallons of empathy for people that are bullied. That all goes away when they murder people. Lots of kids get brutally bullied and they don't murder anyone. Murder is not a natural reaction to being bullied.
Empathy is Especially not deserved here where the "kid" is fucking 18 and wrote about attacking a middle school.
I should think that it’s possible to show empathy towards a person while simultaneously condemning their actions. They are not exclusive from one another. You’re still deciding who deserves or does not deserve empathy, but everyone who has ever lived deserves empathy.
Yes, I am deciding who deserves sympathy. School shooters is not in that group.
The "oh he was a tortured soul, if only someone had seen him" schtick makes the narcissistic little fuckers rock hard.
You dont give serial killers cool names and you dont give school shooters any attention outside of being sad losers. That is the responsible thing to do.