Why are teenagers going on killing sprees at school? Is this becoming an epidemic?

Answer 1

some teens jus need that extra help, that extra encouragement to ease them in the right direction. i was once a suicidal girl who was lost in a dark place. all it took was a friends kind encouraging words to put me bak in the path of righteousness

Answer 2

A numer of factors are involved, but it seems that two key elements are the big contributors. First, parenting practices have drastically changed over the past few decades. Where at one point it was completely acceptable to discipline your child in public, now it's considered taboo and is likely to result in a call being placed to child custody services. As a result, parents are reluctant to discipline their children when they misbehave, rather opting for bribes to enforce good behavior. The lack of negative reinforcement doesn't allow the child to develop a healthy respect for authority.

The second component involves today's media. Violence on television, movies and video games have increased considerably. While some would argue that this has more of a Cathartic effect on the populous, thereby acting more as a stress reliever, others contend that it acts more as a desensitizing agent. As a result, it is commonly accepted that the media violence can affect a person's judgement in how to approach and solve problems.

Combine these two scenarios together and you have people who don't respect authority and believe that violence is the justifiable answer to any problem. As a result, you sometimes end up with people trying to solve their social problems via shooting sprees.

Answer 3

Have you been to high school before? I'm SO not condoning the behavior(killing sprees) but being a teen is tough enough and high school adds fuel to the fire...I could definitely see how a teen with a few missing screws can lose all his marbles in high school and wig out....and I don't think its an epidemic-its just that its hit middle class White america now and now the media cares...When it was happening in droves back in the late '80's, early '90's in poor Black urban areas-they gave us metal detectors--and the media blamed the parents of the crazed students...did you notice how the parents are hardly mentioned in these new stories?

Answer 4

I think the main reason people loose control is because of these social standards kids have to live up to. If your not skinny these days your considered to be fat. Kids can only take so much persecution. On the other hand, you have these artists singing out drive by's and growing up in the hood. They put these images into kid's heads that growing up in the ghetto is good, and that you may have to kill people or sell drugs to get by.

Answer 5

They have taken God out of the school and parents don't have control of the hogwash that schools feed the brains of these children. They are becoming children of the state. The violence has a lot to do with the violent games they play. God destroyed the earth the first time because of the VIOLENCE.

Answer 6

Yes it is. It demonstrates the moral breakdown of our culture in the younger generations and the increased level of anxiety and frustration among them. I can't imagine expressing dissent or dissatisfaction with life through harming someone else.

Answer 7

These are always kids raised by "wolves," (like Romulus and Remus), or by "rattlesnakes" (like Evil Roy Slade), mostly screwed-up, rich, middle-class sociopaths!!! The parents of these masses of useless protoplasm are real pieces of work! We should have psychological evaluations of everyone bringing children into this world. If they don't pass, confiscate the kid and let the state raise him/her.

Answer 8

all of the teens responsible in recent years for such were described as loners,and lonely,distraught people-no one was there for them til madness took them to a new way of thinking. only the murderers,evil dictators,serial killers,etc are remembered thus they chose posterity better to be remembered for something than to eventually become as if you never existed.
better to seek vengeance than to continue hurting inside.
((perhaps,just some ideas.))

Answer 9

because the government has taken the rights of the parents to disapline the kids. and God has been kicked out of everything. the seventies was the drug era you didn't see this crap going on even with everyone out of their mind most of the time. back then parents whipped their kids and taught the kids about God in home and school. yes there was killing but not like there is now.

Answer 10

Where else are they gonna go on killing sprees?