Our law makers are going to have to rewrite the ENTIRE juvenile law stature..The trouble maker kids today make the so called tough guys we saw growing up look like choir boys..85% are armed with semi-automatic weapons and have no hesitation in using them...
I agree, when I was in high school, which was a huge school and was the only one for many small towns I dont think we ever had any major incidents.
Our school had a really bad rep for being one of the most violent and whatever but for the most part it wasnt that bad, I got my *** kicked a few times by a bunch of guys but it was never anything major, I always walked away from it. There were a lot of fights, most of the time if something big came up between two people there would be the usual school gossip all day, end of the day they would get in a scrap, someone would win, someone would lose, 2 days later no one remembered it.
On occasion you would see some knives and stuff brought out in fights, never actually saw anyone use one though, just showing it off and trying to be the big tough guy.
For the most part I dont really care for fighting at all (not street fighting anyways, martial arts and stuff I love but thats a lot different) but that seemed to be the big thing when people had problems with eachother, get in a scrap, its done.
I dont get whats with all the killings now, especially from young kids, its just sick when you hear about a 10 year old kid murdering someone, not even just the fact of them killing someone but when they have been planning for long periods of time. The fact that they actually thought about what they were doing and not just something setting them off spur of the moment to do it.
Its hard to point the blame too, usually I would point it at the parents but we used to have a lot of foster kids that were pretty messed up, most of the time their parents were so sketchy that you could tell where they got it from, other ones seemed as normal as any family I know.
There was a good article I read a while ago (cant remember where) about some kids that killed some homeless guy and blamed it on violent video games (of course the press loved that). Some website wrote an article saying the parents should be blamed instead of games and one of the family members sent them in a really long letter explaining how they tried dealing with the kid growing up and how they tried getting him help and the schools and counselors didnt think anything was wrong and just blew it off. Was actually a pretty good read and creepy to hear some of the stuff the kid would do and how they tried everything they could think of.
Anyways I just did way more rambling than I normally do, off to bed.