EVERYONE who has been a teenager goes through difficult times. And hundreds of thousands grew up in abusive households, thought no one understood them, were beaten up by other kids, got caught up in drugs and alcohol themselves, got pregnant and might have suffered the festering guilt of one or more abortions, and had long periods of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and depression. BUT THEY NEVER WENT AROUND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE, because they had RESPECT for other people. That respect for others is incredibly diminshed today, and a majority of younger people have absolutely zero respect for themselves nor for other people.

Think about it from his POV. Hawkins says he wanted to “go out in style”. THIS is the best he could do? Please! It was PATHETIC. He killed and injured some of mommies, senior citizens, and kids in a MALL. THAT is “in style?” It just goes to show the mediocre level of his self-worth.

And I think that a lot of kids today consider themselves to be mediocre, waiting for government or mommy and daddy to GIVE them everything, and not expecting to put in one drop of sweat or tears to accomplish anything ON THEIR OWN.

You don’t need other people to care about you. You need to learn to care for yourself. If you care about yourself, only hold yourself to blame for your circumstances, and you are willing to put in whatever work it takes to be the best that you can be, for as long as that takes, you will automatically have tremendous self-respect and respect for others.

I couldn’t WAIT to get out of my house at 18, not because it was awful there, but because I wanted to prove I could do it.

And I saw some bad **** in my life. A guy jumped from a building and landed 10 feet in front of me. I saw him die. A relative was a violent alcoholic. I hid with my cousin while he searched for us for a butcher knife. I watched my best friend die when her drunken boyfriend cut in front of a car to turn left (and didn’t make it). And a whole lot more. And I NEVER NEEDED COUNSELING.

Stop making excuses. Life happens. Life is hard. No one is going to coddle you like a baby for the rest of your life.

You complain the rest of our society says ME ME ME, but the reason this kid got kicked out of his house is because his mother paid more attention to her boyfriend than him. He wanted attention. Then, when he decided to kill himself, he wanted to “be famous”. His words. Who is ME ME ME now?

Also, he was fired for being abrasive to customers, co-workers, and STEALING MONEY. You need to figure out what you are talking about before you vomit text onto the internet.

I’m assuming he was a drug addict before this whole incident… i got fired from plenty of jobs, and got kicked out by my family… and instead of blaming my misery on everyone else, I grew up and did something about it… i didn’t want people to feel sorry for me… it was my own doing, so instead of going on a murderous rampage, i got off the drugs and got married, and have a wonderful life…

it’s a cop out… you can’t feel bad for him..

Did any of the people he killed do anything to him? Did any of the people he injured do anything to him? (I’m talking directly here!)

I didn’t get no breaks when I was a young man either. Worked 2 jobs 80 to 100 hours per week, high stress environments, dangerous work places. Guess what … I didn’t kill or injure anyone!

I was the ONLY member of “my gang” all during school, tormented daily by the popular “rich kids”. Physically assaulted, harassed, chased, items stolen and damaged daily … how many kids from that school did I kill? NONE!

Time to realize that there are some “bad people” who just believe that they can do whatever they want to. He spent his life ignoring society’s rules and when it became clear he wasn’t going to get a free pass, he decided to kill himself, and take as many innocent people as he could with him.

Life is too short to dwell on the actions of fools and idiots. It would have been nice if, when he decided to kill himself, he had just done that and not killed uninvolved people.

“you guys labeled him felon?” no,the court did.
Read some case law: lots of FELONS learn from their mistake and become good citizens.
I wish that your viewpoint would work to make people happier, but …no.

I have seen many people with situations worse than this, and they did not go and shoot up a mall. There is no excuse for what he did.

1. I do not know the circumstances surrounding him being kicked out, but I would imagine it has something to do with being a felon.

2. We didn’t label him anything, He was tried and convicted as a felon, no one to blame but him.

3. Mc Donald’s fired him for LYING. Again, his fault. As for the girlfriend, no idea why.

What most of these have in common are HIS actions. He chose to gain access to a fucking assault rifle and kill 8 people. Way to take responsibility for his life and mistakes. I am glad he had the common decencey to end it himself before taking any law enforcement out with him in his sucide attempt.

“His family put him out of the house. He was not welcome to celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas with his family.”

That is there problem not mine. I am sorry they did that but they must have had a good reason. Maybe he would not go rehab maybe he was violent when hopped up on drugs. You do not know neither do I.

“You guys labeled him FELON on his record. That ruined the kid’s life forever, no 2nd chance. Nobody wants to hire him for job. Just because he did drug, why not REHAB for the kid, not FELON.”

He was given all the freedoms of everyone else and showed he could not handle the responsibility. It sucks that he got a felon rap but he must have did something rather bad to get it. Just goes to show you that GUN CONTROL DOES NOT WORK. Because Felons are not allowed to own guns, yet he had them anyways. So what makes you think more gun control laws are going to make a difference? No one at the mall is allowed to carry concealed, so there for he broke a law and another rule but carrying that weapon concealed in some way to get it in the mall in the first place. That leads to another law being broke because he was carrying concealed weapons with out a permit.

“McDonalds fired him, maybe because he lied on his application that he wasn’t a felon and girlfriend broke up with him. Somebody should have put the poor kid in counseling… if they have notice him being depress.”

I have been fired from jobs and had girlfriends and a wife leave me it never made want to go to a mall and kill people I did not know.

Unfortunately his family did fail him. For this I am sad, but I did not fail him. Do not go and blame a whole country for one person’s problems. Maybe if his mommy would have hugged him more or his daddy played catch with him this would not have happened. Who knows? Maybe if he would not have been messed up on DRUGS he would not have been so depressed. Maybe if he would have made better choices in life he would not have done this. No one knows.

Life was unfair to him? Of course it was life is unfair to me as well. Man I paid my car off and two months later it blew up and I had to go buy a brand new car. I can barley afford the payment on because I am a single dad raising two kids and putting myself threw school. My kids are not going to have a Christmas tree this year because the sewer backed up in to the living room and dinning room causing $10,000 in damage. We have no carpet in the living room and we had to rip out all the hard wood in the dinning room. My daughter had RAD, ADD and high cholesterol (That is inherited) allergies, and asthma. So tell me again how life was only unfair to him. The only time life is fair is in the movies and TV sitcoms that last 30 minutes.

My prayers go out to all that were injured of killed in this senseless act of violence.