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"Isaac Fabrikant" <hollyric@colba.net> wrote in message
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> My heart sinks each time I hear in the news this: yet another shooting,
two
> are killed and 13 wounded, and yet again the yellow media pretends not to
> know why it happened.  I quote a typical passage from a newspaper:
>
> "Santana High School did everything right: anonymous sign-in sheets for
> students to report threats, SWAT training for the principal, program to
help
> youngsters to get along, including one called "Names can really hurt us".
A
> sheriff s deputy was assigned part-time to the school.  Seven full-time
> campus supervisors roamed the grounds.  Extra phones, radio and speakers
> were installed to spread word of trouble quickly across the 1,900-student
> campus.  Somehow, it wasn't enough."
>
> Yellow media take people for stupid: we know from other reports that Andy
> Williams was bullied on a daily basis, was called "dork", "freak", "geek",
> "nerd", his shoes were taken off his feet, etc.  There were 7 (seven!)
> supervisors "roaming the grounds", how on earth could they not notice a
boy,
> without shoes?  What is the point to have those supervisors, if they do
not
> see and do not stop bullying?  Santana school did nothing right: what is
the
> point to SWAT train the principal, what is the point to install phones and
> radios?  All they had to do was to stop abuse of Andy Williams, and then
> they would not need anything else.
>
> School officials claim that Andy never complained to them.  I do not buy
> this: he even told a number of people of his intentions to bring a gun and
> to shoot his abusers, clearly, he tried less radical means earlier; it is
> March now, and school abuse started in September.
>
> Numerous talk shows have various professionals invited, and all of them
are
> saying that the matter of school violence is too complicated, each case is
> different, there is no quick solution and other general and meaningless
> phrases.  We see on TV screens that police investigators "found no motives
> for shooting". We see a picture with big WHY written on the wall.  I can
> tell you why: IT IS THE ABUSE, STUPID!!!  Stop the abuse, and there will
be
> no shootings anywhere.
>
> I also read in newspapers that Andy Williams did his shooting to get his
"15
> minutes of fame". Nothing could be more stupid than this: he did not look
> very happy about all the publicity around him.  The yellow media wrote the
> same thing about me, that I shot 4 people "to attract attention" to my
feud
> with the university officials.  Noone in his right mind would shoot anyone
> just to attract attention.  Andy Williams is not insane, and neither was
I.
> What he felt was extreme pain and utter desperation, I know, I was there.
>
> There is though a big difference in our cases: I did not plan to kill
> anyone, and I was lucky that not a single innocent person was hurt in my
> case, but I think, I can explain why Andy Williams shot passersby, some of
> them he probably did not know.  In his head, they were as guilty as direct
> abusers, because they saw him being abused, and probably laughed at him
> instead of telling his abusers to stop.  It is as simple as that everybody
> understands that no abuser can exist unless he sees an audience which
> explicitly or implicitly approves his actions, and Andy understood it as
> well.  So, if you see someone being abused, try to stop it or tell someone
> and demand it to stop, because when the abused person goes berserk, it is
> you who might get killed.
>
> I think, I can also explain, why some of the children, involved in school
> shootings, killed one or both parents first. Parents are there to protect
> their children, and if they not only refuse to protect, but also humiliate
> their children and laugh at them, when their children tell them that
someone
> is bullying them, this creates extreme hatred towards parents. In eyes of
> the children, such parents are traitors, and traitors in every society are
> hated more than the enemy: they are usually hanged or shot, while the
enemy
> is taken as a prisoner and kept alive. So, if this is the case, do not be
> surprised, when you hear that one or both parents were killed first.
>
> There is in Canadian jurisprudence the defense of battered woman syndrome.
> It originates from the case of a woman in Western Canada, who was severely
> abused by her husband for a long time.  One day, he threatened to kill
her.
> She took a rifle and shot him dead.  At the time of shooting, he was
leaving
> the room, and had no weapon with him.  She was acquitted on the basis of
> battered woman syndrome which states that a woman, subjected to a long and
> severe abuse, feels that she, in order to protect her life, has no
> alternative but to kill her abuser. I accept this, and even if it was not
> so, I mean, even if this battered woman syndrome was a fantasy created by
> psychiatrists, a woman killing an abusive husband should be acquitted for
a
> very simple reason: to send a message to all abusers - start behaving or
> risk of being killed.  I guarantee that this would be the best way to stop
> significant part of family violence.
>
> The same should be applied to Andy Williams: if we accept the battered
woman
> syndrome, why can not we accept a battered child syndrome?  If you want to
> stop shootings at schools, you should stop bullying, and the best way to
do
> so, is to send a clear message to the bullies: stop bullying or risk of
> being killed.  I guarantee this would cool them off.  If Andy Williams had
> the money of O.J. Simpson, his lawyers most certainly would revoke the
> battered child syndrome defense, but since he does not, I am pretty sure,
> his lawyers would not defend him at all.
>
> I have seen on TV funeral of one of the children shot at Santana school,
and
> one of his friends was reading from a prepared sheet of paper: "Somewhere,
> down the road, we shall have all the answers ..." Children do not speak
like
> that; some grown-ups have prepared this speech for him, taking into
> consideration that the whole thing was to be bradcasted to the nation.
> Hello, WAKE UP, we have all the answers, many years ago.
>
>  V.I. Fabrikant
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