Revolutionary: Diary of a School Shooter
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DarkFic › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
4
Views:
796
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Recommended:
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Dossier 2
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Robert’s 10th grade report handed into Social Sciences:
Violence and Video Games
A growing epidemic of a red herring?
Violence has been a part of gaming and entertainment as long as I can remember. Even before my time war and crime was glorified by Hollywood, popular writings, even the media however much they would deny it. Violence is something our major media and news networks thrive off of. Without it they would wither and die.
Since the shootings as Columbine many have blamed video games for inspiring violence in young adults. I can’t say I agree with this sentiment. As I said before violence has always been glorified, yet I can’t seem to find a news clipping from the 1960’s or 70’s where some high schooler saw “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly” and went on a shooting rampage. Nor do I see in any known media of a college student watching Scorcese’s masterpiece “Taxi Driver” and becoming a vigilante.
It boils down to where it comes from. With the explosion of technology there are many free ideas floating around out there, this makes Media, Government, Corporations ect. Shit their pants.
When you have controlled the input for so long it hurts when someone else steps up to another keyboard. We are literally programming reality right now. Its scary, however all these talking heads rambling about adolescent minds being warped by games and music, overlooks one thing. We have the right to fucking CHOOSE.
The Columbine shooters had a choice, Eric and Dillon, had a choice. They chose to take life. The people who bullied and mocked them had a choice. The parents had a choice to get involved or let nature run its course. Entertainment was simply an afternote, yet it was made the issue when the issue was more social.
Video games didn’t mock them. People did. Music didn’t hurt them. People did. When they had no one to turn to they turned to their games and music and movies. Nothing is gained by hurting the artist for the action of the fans.
Nothing was gained by those in their school mocking them and casting them out. Neither was anything gained by their killings.
The very week the shootings occurred, the grieving parents and friends placed white crosses in front of the school to remember those lost. Two of the crosses their were for Eric and Dillon. A public outcry among the parents and community arose stating they didn’t want their children remembered with killers.
So even after the deaths of their children and friends they still wouldn’t accept them. They wouldn’t learn from their mistake, that if you cast people out, you spurned them, you victimized them, they would strike back.
That tiny community in Colorado learned jack shit. History repeats itself. The tragedy at Columbine High School will occur again, and again, larger every time until the world realizes the problem isn’t a game, or a movie or a book. The problem is how we treat one another. How we are forced to view the world. Until that happens the game will continue.
*This document was seen as threatening by a student in the class and reported to the principal. Robert Crowley was sent to counceling for “harboring sympathetic feelings” for the Columbine shooters. He was suspened for a semester and allowed to return after Christmas, not before being asked to give a public speech of apology to the entire student body.
Robert’s 10th grade report handed into Social Sciences:
Violence and Video Games
A growing epidemic of a red herring?
Violence has been a part of gaming and entertainment as long as I can remember. Even before my time war and crime was glorified by Hollywood, popular writings, even the media however much they would deny it. Violence is something our major media and news networks thrive off of. Without it they would wither and die.
Since the shootings as Columbine many have blamed video games for inspiring violence in young adults. I can’t say I agree with this sentiment. As I said before violence has always been glorified, yet I can’t seem to find a news clipping from the 1960’s or 70’s where some high schooler saw “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly” and went on a shooting rampage. Nor do I see in any known media of a college student watching Scorcese’s masterpiece “Taxi Driver” and becoming a vigilante.
It boils down to where it comes from. With the explosion of technology there are many free ideas floating around out there, this makes Media, Government, Corporations ect. Shit their pants.
When you have controlled the input for so long it hurts when someone else steps up to another keyboard. We are literally programming reality right now. Its scary, however all these talking heads rambling about adolescent minds being warped by games and music, overlooks one thing. We have the right to fucking CHOOSE.
The Columbine shooters had a choice, Eric and Dillon, had a choice. They chose to take life. The people who bullied and mocked them had a choice. The parents had a choice to get involved or let nature run its course. Entertainment was simply an afternote, yet it was made the issue when the issue was more social.
Video games didn’t mock them. People did. Music didn’t hurt them. People did. When they had no one to turn to they turned to their games and music and movies. Nothing is gained by hurting the artist for the action of the fans.
Nothing was gained by those in their school mocking them and casting them out. Neither was anything gained by their killings.
The very week the shootings occurred, the grieving parents and friends placed white crosses in front of the school to remember those lost. Two of the crosses their were for Eric and Dillon. A public outcry among the parents and community arose stating they didn’t want their children remembered with killers.
So even after the deaths of their children and friends they still wouldn’t accept them. They wouldn’t learn from their mistake, that if you cast people out, you spurned them, you victimized them, they would strike back.
That tiny community in Colorado learned jack shit. History repeats itself. The tragedy at Columbine High School will occur again, and again, larger every time until the world realizes the problem isn’t a game, or a movie or a book. The problem is how we treat one another. How we are forced to view the world. Until that happens the game will continue.
*This document was seen as threatening by a student in the class and reported to the principal. Robert Crowley was sent to counceling for “harboring sympathetic feelings” for the Columbine shooters. He was suspened for a semester and allowed to return after Christmas, not before being asked to give a public speech of apology to the entire student body.