To avoid spoiling the storyline, I won’t comment on this video until after the break. Zoom in full-screen and please, please watch. Please.
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Absolutely chilling. As September peeks over the horizon, schools across North America are either already in full session or will begin classes within two tweets of a teacher’s tablet. No one wants to think of the horrifying scenarios played out in too many schools, but think we must. Click below to discover the clues.
Now that you’ve seen the segment, did you notice the hints? Pay attention to the brunet boy with the white headphones, usually wearing black and grey clothing. Little things appear almost innocent. In order, I spotted the following clues:
- Studying gun magazine
- Shutting out another student by donning headphones
- Sitting isolated in the cafeteria
- Watching a video of a man shooting an assault rifle
- Appearing on social media waving an automatic
(It’s unclear if Cristo4K47 is the same boy) - Firing a finger pistol at a fellow student
- Being bullied in the hallway
- Disrupting yearbook distribution
Until the yearbook event, almost every scene reveals a clue. The first weapon out of the bag appears to be a pump-action shotgun. Like a rapid-fire assault weapon, a shotgun makes an ideal weapon for those who can pull a trigger but don’t know how to aim.
- Disclosure
- Rural kids learn to shoot, in my case lever action, bolt action, small-calibre semi-auto, and revolvers, although I’m a complete naïf when it comes to street-popular automatics. I confess I was moderately good, not great but reasonably competent: 4-H Shooting Sports, Boy Scout Marksman badge, ROTC range skill. I still own weapons. But— I also recognize we have a national sickness that more guns won't fix. Kindly bear this in mind:
- Guns…
- … are the № 1 killers of kids.
Justify that.
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It's a very powerful video but parts of it make me uncomfortable - not in the way intended. The theory that BEING bullied is an indication of potential violence has led to victims being seen as threats. Not a great concept. And the idea of introverts being dangerous (he refused to talk to the girl!) also bugs me.
ReplyDeleteYou raise two good points. Certainly some bullies I've known were extreme extroverts, often the life of the party. I wonder what the statistics show? We certainly have no shortage of urban wisdom when it comes to judging people.
DeleteYou raise an interesting point. Are bullies the ones who become active shooters? Not the impression I get.
DeleteI was bullied three times in school. And I grew up on a farm and had guns. What I did was write about it. It was good therapy for me. My story in a soon-to-be-published anthology deals with a bully situation. (P.S., I have forgiven my bullies but I still write about bullies in general.)
DeleteI don't know about being bullied making you an automatic mass shooter - but I do know that the more obsessed a kid becomes with weapons and sites about weapons and sites about shooters and sites about... Well, that person is a barrel of gasoline waiting for a match.
ReplyDeleteEve, I recall an office security guard who on his own decided to arm himself. He constantly disassembled and caressed his beat-up revolver with a taped handle. The weirdest part was he'd adjourn to the restroom to finish up. Did I say weird? I might have meant bizarre.
DeleteThat is bizarre. Compared to that, Robert LeRoy Anderson (SD's main serial killer) just talked endlessly at lunch break (at his job at the meatpacking plant) about kidnapping, torturing, and raping women. But everyone thought he was just a weirdo, and "kidding"...
DeleteI know people with a passion for weaponry, and they are career military. They are they type of people who would, in seconds, assess a shooter and respond to take him down. A passion for weaponry doesn't make a mass shooter either.
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