Ok here's the thing: The real question is not, if Quake made them do it, If being ostracized made them do it, or even if bad parenting combined with bad schools made them do it. The real problem lies in why in the name of god did they have a Quake-like arsenal at their disposal.
If they hadn't had access to the weapons they did, maybe they could have held on a little bit longer and got some help. Instead they had, at their disposal the simplest (and stupidest) solutions. Violence.
We're really focusing the scrutiny on the wrong thing here. Ask yourself why those kids really needed to have those guns in there possesion. My little sister is a freshman in a HS not so affluent as Columbine, so belive me I ask myself the same thing everyday.
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Ok here's the thing: The real question is not, if Quake made them do it, If being ostracized made them do it, or even if bad parenting combined with bad schools made them do it. The real problem lies in why in the name of god did they have a Quake-like arsenal at their disposal.
If they hadn't had access to the weapons they did, maybe they could have held on a little bit longer and got some help. Instead they had, at their disposal the simplest (and stupidest) solutions. Violence.
We're really focusing the scrutiny on the wrong thing here. Ask yourself why those kids really needed to have those guns in there possesion. My little sister is a freshman in a HS not so affluent as Columbine, so belive me I ask myself the same thing everyday.