Originally Posted by: RaskolnikovThere wasn't anything especially "wrong" with them; they were simply pushed too far with too little guidance or support to get them through it the right way.

I hate to argue with you, Rask, because I know I risk getting pwned in the worst way. However, I think when someone resorts to mass murder, there is something terribly wrong with him, be it depression, schizophrenia, whatever, that person likely, if not definitely, has pretty severe psychological problems. I agree that these guys had far too little guidance and support, but I think they would need more guidance and support than normal kids because of what I see as deep-seeded psychological problems.

Sane kids don't shoot random classmates because they're social outcasts.

I think that these kids also probably had bad parents who did not pay NEARLY enough attention to their children, but I think it was more bad parenting coupled with psychological problems that helped fuel this incident. Not merely poor guidance and lonely dejectedness.

It is a perfectly normal thing for young people to crave attention, even use devices to get attention. But when that device is the slaughter of innocent classmates, I think it's safe to say that sanity has gone out the window.