when i was in school, it was 10 on 1, usually with the 1 ending up going through a window of some sort (the ribbed glass (i don't know what you call it... wired checkers?)) and that was about it.
bunch of pussy's who can't fight by them selves.
so what happens? said kid who went through the window ends up buying a trench coat.
and we all know what happens next.
I always kept cool with everyone.
I hung out with some jocks.
I was in band, so i had a lot of dork friends.
and then there were the "Magic" and trench coat crews.... nearly all who were in my classes (I was in the accelerated classes most my life). If anything, those kids would be the ones who would go nuts and shoot up the place. So, I was social and civil with them. We had group projects and what not all the time, and it was no big deal. Should the day ever come when they go around shooting up the place, hopefully they'd spare me as I was cool with them.
it never was a real issue.... no one really flipped out.
but like take columbine for example... if you've seen the history channel special on it, you see that in the lybrary, they let one kid go... why? because he was cool with them. Not necessarily friends, but CIVIL and at least friendly.
these shootings are not random. Sure, the mall probably was, but i'll bet you dollars to donuts, that some preppy bitch wearing aberfuckme and bitch pissed off the kid, made fun of him, or whatever, and so he went to the store, and opened up. Retaliating on the TYPE, instead of the actual person.
How do we stop all this shit?
teach our kids to be social and civil with everyone.... regardless of cliques, regardless of skin, regardless of dorkiness.
Think, the Benchwarmers. All those kids getting picked on, eventually, they loose it. And then end up either shotting up the place, or ending up in a psych ward.
Kinda like that movie "pass it forward" or whatever it was called. do something nice for someone you normally wouldn't. It doesn't have to be anything big.
let someone cut you off in line at the grocery store....
look behind you when you go through a door, and if someone is even remotely close, wait there and hold the door for them.
if the whole world did that, there would be a lot less crime, and less kids trying to jihad the world.