More recently, the brother of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooter attributed his sibling’s violence to being bullied and isolated at school. It was speculated that the school shooters committed the attacks because of bullying. It was the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 that stirred the first contemporary conversations about school shooters and their motives. Now, with the findings of the Oxford case, we need to stop excusing the actions undertaken by school shooters. In 2004, the United States government released its Safe School Initiative report, claiming that 71% of attackers were motivated by social distress - the report’s seventh key finding read, “Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack.”įor years, the narrative that shooters were victims of bullying has persisted. Bullying seemed like the clear and easy answer. In the past, mass shootings in schools inspired debates about what potentially motivated attackers to open fire on classmates and teachers. The shooting at Oxford was the 27th mass murder of 2021 in the United States. Eleven people were shot, three students died from their injuries and the rest were critically injured. It's demolition mixed with la dolce vita.A 15-year-old sophomore school shooter committed a senseless act of violence at Oxford High School on Tuesday, Nov.Why did Gabby Logan get into sport? The broadcaster looks back at her career and shares her favourite music."It's just a matter of him physically being back in Europe, sticking our heads together, wrestling a bit, and then leaving the room with white smoke after a few hours." "We are so aligned - in the last 10 years our relationship has grown. Team principal Toto Wolff said earlier this month that he was confident Hamilton would agree a new contract to continue racing beyond the end of this year. Hamilton embarks on his 17th season in F1 in March and is entering the final year of his latest Mercedes contract. He set up a commission to study why ethnic minorities are under-represented in the sport, established his Mission 44 campaign to look at ways of supporting young people from under-served backgrounds, and is working with Mercedes on increasing diversity within their team, and in F1. In recent years, Hamilton has embarked on a campaign to increase diversity in motorsport. I didn't want my dad to think I was not strong." "I didn't feel I could go home and tell my parents that these kids kept calling me, or I got bullied or beaten up at school today. "I really felt the system was up against me and I was swimming against the tide. The headmaster just had it out for us - and particularly me. "In my school there were six or seven black kids out of 1,200 kids and three of us were put outside the headmaster's office all the time. I was thinking, 'Where are the people who look like me?' "When you go into history classes and there are no people of colour in the history they were teaching us. Hamilton added: "Not knowing where you fit in, that for me was difficult. Speaking to the On Purpose podcast, the seven-time Formula 1 champion detailed a number of racially abusive terms that he was referred to at school. "At that particular school, I was one of three kids of colour and just bigger, stronger, bullying kids were throwing me around a lot of the time." Hamilton said: "I was already being bullied at the age of six.
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