re: Parkland Student Emma Gonzalez Admits To Bullying Shooter

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She is alive

I'd hardly consider her a victim

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I am by no means saying that because the Parkland teens were there or that they are minors they are beyond reproach. If conservatives and gun lovers want to engage in a debate with these kids, I fully support that—but engage with them on the issues, the facts. Instead, the dominant trend online and even on TV is to impugn these survivors’ credibility—to say they are Soros puppets, doing it for their 15 minutes of fame, doin' it for the Vine, or whatever else. Discussing common sense ways to lower gun violence across groups that all (hopefully) abhor is one thing, calling a group of children dykes or Nazis or agents of the Deep State or saying it's their fault this psycho shot up a school is entirely another.

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The frick you cant. They bullied this guy for years, to the point he finally snapped and killed people and they aren’t in anyway responsible for his mental state of mind? Gtfo with that shite. Everyone has limits and if you push a person far enough, they will eventually snap and respond back, often violently

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culpability of someone bullying the kid might be at 0.1%

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Furthermore, it directly indicts the population that has been given the full power of the media spotlight and unrestricted moral superiority to lecture Americans on Constitutional rights issues.

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I agree with this part. These kids certainly aren't responsible for the murder of their classmates. However, if they did bully the shooter, they should hopefully feel remorseful for that.

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what happened to personal responsibility?

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Personal responsibility? As someone who spent the vast majority of 6th and 7th grade dealing with bullying, I know exactly what it does to a person. I was lucky that I broke the cycle as I transitioned into highschool, but it still didn’t leave me any less angry because of it throughout my teen years and early twenties. Believe it or not, I actually kept the guy who used to constantly frick with me from getting his arse kicked by a half dozen guys at a party in my early twenties. I was lucky enough to develope a razor sharp sense of humor that I often unleashed on anyone I felt threatened me. Some kids aren’t so lucky. They withdraw inward which only further isolates them. They hold all that anger inside until it just explodes.

It’s like poking an injured animal with a stick. You poke them enough and they will eventually attack

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Which is still more culpability than the nra.

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right

not sure who is blaming the NRA here

Kingbob, this might sound wild...but have you thought about maybe getting together with him and writing an article detailing this story a little bit? I think this is a pretty powerful message that would be good for folks to read and I doubt you would have any trouble getting it published to a wider audience.

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trying to cram all the blame into single issues is incredibly simple minded

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No one is doing that you moron.

The bullying may be just one component of the blame, along with the shooter, his parents, the cop who stood outside, the police response, the police failure to follow up, the school officials, the fbi, etc

My god, most of you are angry, venomous people. You can disagree with somebody without calling them "fricking hookers" and "skinhead carpet munching whores."

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My god, most of you are angry, venomous people. You can disagree with somebody without calling them "fricking hookers" and "skinhead carpet munching whores."

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kinda ironic in a thread chastising bullying, no?

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Here is my own post from back on Feb 22. where I called this:

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And this speech was made on Feb 17. You were easily manipulated by an edited video.

Here's the full video, and I started at the "middle school part." LINK

Here is the actual full quote in regards to that:

"Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. 'Must always report such instances to authorities...again and again!' We did. Time and time again. Since he was in middle school. It was no surprise to anyone that knew him to hear that he was the shooter."

Also ostracized isn't exactly the "bullying" that you seem to imply happened. They may have excluded him socially because he was threatening. It could have been because he was weird also. There's no way you can say either way based on the support you provided. I'd lean on the former being the reason if the claim that they have been reporting him to police since middle school.