Word: outcasts
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...Harris. How do we let kids get so lost, feel so alone, that they would do something like this? Their actions were not the fault of their parents or their teachers. These boys were simply victims of the way our society treats teenagers, and they changed from lonely, outcast little boys to violent, homicidal young boys. LANI BROWN Portales...
...Columbine tapes gave me chills, but not for the politically correct reasons [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 20]. You see, that was me at 17. I was like those kids on the tapes. I hated everybody at school; I was an outcast loner who mostly stayed home and listened to gangsta rap. I wanted to kill the school leaders, the "members," everybody who had screwed me. My plans for mass murder never got beyond the fantasy stage, but under the right circumstances, they could have gone as far as Columbine. How can we stop kids who will kill? Many need mental-health...