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Hi,
You are absolutely right.
Not that I would want to speak ill of the dead, but there's a common
response to young deaths (of all kinds) that they had their whole life ahead
of them, that everyone liked them etc. etc. I'm not saying the friends and
schoolteachers were wrong- but they're in shock, on TV shows being asked to
talk about someone who's just done something very odd. I don't trust
teachers to know anything about the kids they teach (did Harris' and
Klebold's teachers foresee what they did at Columbine?). Finding out what
really motivated this kid is impossible, which in turn means any theory you
like can be thrown into the mix, and little therefore can be done
substantively to try and prevent such things happening again (save perhaps
do something about laws that allow 15 year olds to fly planes...). It does
look like the cliches aren't going to apply in this case (weird loner etc.
etc.).
Vincent
<More details are coming to light and make this case a bit harder to
fathom
> as some who knew the boy recall him in a manner at odds with someone
> capable
> of such an act. The notion that he was a loner seems to be contradicted
> too.
> This just shows that everything is far too preliminary to jump to any
> conclusions.
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/682652.asp
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/07/plane.crash.suicide
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42334,00.html
>
> The kid was apparently an honor student too, from what I've been reading.>
>
>
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