By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted February 16, 2008.
Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America.
...Schoolyard shootings are too shocking and subversive to forget. They remind us that we were just as miserable as kids as we are as adult workers. In fact, the similarities between the two, the continuity of misery and entrapment from school to office, become depressingly clear when you study the two settings in the context of these murders...
I laughed when I read that because today I was looking for a hard copy of the Constitution in one of the texbooks I picked up at the dollar-a-grocery-bag library sale and read part of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The only reason I read these articles is because the author seemed to approach the subject like I do. What really happened to these kids to push them over the edge?
Yeah, & on the other hand the media focuses intensely on 7 dead in a school shooting, but yeesh, something like 40-thousand people die in car wrecks and almost that many die of the flu every year. That's what I told the kid when she was scared to go to school because of all the sensational newz reportz anyway.
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