How We Talk about Bullying After School Shootings Can Be Dangerous: Experts
Last week, former student Nikolas Cruz stormed a Florida high school with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, murdering 17 people and injuring 14 others in the largest mass school shooting since 2012's Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
The media frenzy that's followed has attempted to profile the 19-year-old and decipher what could have prompted him to unleash violence on his former peers at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Amid revelations of gun obsession, mental health issues and family tragedy, an all-too-familiar line has made its way into the mix: Cruz was likely bullied.
While an estimated one in 10 million bullied students in the U.S. actually go on a shooting rampage, the word "bullied" is consistently circulated in wake of a shooting—including at a listening session between Parkland students and President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo News
The media frenzy that's followed has attempted to profile the 19-year-old and decipher what could have prompted him to unleash violence on his former peers at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Amid revelations of gun obsession, mental health issues and family tragedy, an all-too-familiar line has made its way into the mix: Cruz was likely bullied.
While an estimated one in 10 million bullied students in the U.S. actually go on a shooting rampage, the word "bullied" is consistently circulated in wake of a shooting—including at a listening session between Parkland students and President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo News
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