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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 544865" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>My difficult child has never really been physically violent, even when cornered he lashes out verbally, not physically (and he is a big kid so he could intimidate others physically, but he doesn't.) So I have never really worries about him becoming a thug kind of violent criminal. But many school shooters (and perpetrators of crimes similar to that profile) don't seem to be 'traditional thug types.' Here they have all been more nerdy kids, not fitting in, bullied, no real violent behaviour before the act. And what I read from that book what the dad told about his son while younger really hit home to me. Maybe just different circumstances, just less success in his sport and feeling a failure also in that and being cut from teams in bad time (around 14 or 15) and I may had really had reason to worry. </p><p></p><p>Of course there are lots of kids who fit to that profile of those who do this type of acts and 99,9... % of them never act it out. Some may fantasize about it, some even plan it but never <em>really</em> plan to act on it, some have a plan and plan to act but for a reason or other never do. And some very, very rare individual do act. And it is always an horrible tragedy. But like with suicides media should be very careful how to talk about these things. Like suicides (and murdering your family and then killing yourself) they seem to be epidemic. Wrong way of talking about them may very well cause more of these tragedies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 544865, member: 14557"] My difficult child has never really been physically violent, even when cornered he lashes out verbally, not physically (and he is a big kid so he could intimidate others physically, but he doesn't.) So I have never really worries about him becoming a thug kind of violent criminal. But many school shooters (and perpetrators of crimes similar to that profile) don't seem to be 'traditional thug types.' Here they have all been more nerdy kids, not fitting in, bullied, no real violent behaviour before the act. And what I read from that book what the dad told about his son while younger really hit home to me. Maybe just different circumstances, just less success in his sport and feeling a failure also in that and being cut from teams in bad time (around 14 or 15) and I may had really had reason to worry. Of course there are lots of kids who fit to that profile of those who do this type of acts and 99,9... % of them never act it out. Some may fantasize about it, some even plan it but never [I]really[/I] plan to act on it, some have a plan and plan to act but for a reason or other never do. And some very, very rare individual do act. And it is always an horrible tragedy. But like with suicides media should be very careful how to talk about these things. Like suicides (and murdering your family and then killing yourself) they seem to be epidemic. Wrong way of talking about them may very well cause more of these tragedies. [/QUOTE]
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