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Jeez - where to begin...
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Today, there was a shootout at a mall in Tacoma, Washington. This story brought me back, to all the shootouts of the past, the ones that I can atleast remember. I have always pondered this question, even before I could fully understand exactly what was going on during the columbine shootouts. Looking around my school, I see many thousands of kids, listening to heavy metal, and spouting out that they are gothic, etc, etc, all the typical signs of the So-Called "MallGoth". For those of you who do not know what a MallGoth is, in basic terms, it is someone who is only Gothic to skindeep levels, so that he or she may feel more, how do I word this, "alike", with the darker side of the world.
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That's terrible about the shooting. I've been through Tacoma many times but have never stopped at the mall. I don't care for malls. Still, for as long as there have been kids and a generational gap between kids and parents (meaning pretty much forever) there has been rebellion. Kids, teens, whatever, will often latch onto whatever it is that shocks their gullible close minded parents. This is nothing new. Sometimes some of these kids are fucking nutjobs and do something so horrid that it causes the entire associated youth social circle (whatever it is) to recieve massive negative media attention. This, in turn, brings in a second generation of followers that want, again, to shock and offend authority figures - just because.
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Looking around, this seems to all trace back to the poorly executed Columbine shootout. From most of the MallGoths, who would despise the name, they seem to trace thier ideals back to that fateful day, simply because they wish to become a terrorizing force. For some reason they are instinctually driven to make it so that others fear them. This brings me to wonder, what purpose does that serve? Why would they wish to become in like with the two men who ended lives, and wounded others, and forever brought a curse to America?
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I don't think this is entirely true. There may be truth to it - but I'd blame the negative spin on gothy kids by the media after the fact as the culprit than the act itself. See above for why. At that general time frame - before actually - there were also many other explosions in popularity of the whole "Goth" thing, and I use the term losely, through movies, music, comics, and other medium that pushed the "Goth scene" into mainstream culture. Gave it an official label of it's very own - w00t w00t. And... The kids at columbine were certainly NOT men. Nothing even close. I don't have words to describe how disgustingly weak and foolsih boys they were.
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For some reason, those who I look at, who claim to be Gothic, only started being Gothic, right after Columbine. They look upon that day as thier "Awakening", leaving them, in my eyes, nothing more than a cult. Is it just me, and possibly the enviroment that I live in, to believe that all MallGoths, who are perhaps with the ability to become full fledged Goths, given the right direction, simply wish to reenact columbine?
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Again I don't think this is the case. the timing may be there but I think - and sincerely hope - that that's all it is. Simple timing. I really don't think even 1% of your "Mallgoths" have the fortitude, genuine hatred, and mental aptitude to seriously consider reenacting suck a horrible incident.
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Then, that makes me wonder, why does no one do it? Why has no one actually emphisized on a full fledged, planned, assualt on a school? Why hasn't there been a coalition of several of the cultish followers of Klebold and Harris suddenly pop up out of nowhere, brandishing the basic weapons, and commit another massacre? Is it just a countdown until a school-doomsday, where everyone wishes to kill everyone else, an explosion of force and violence that brings death to hundreds? It is said that in columbine, had the bombs that the boys made, gone off, many more would have died. Why hasn't it happend, if so many people follow them?
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Are you asking for it to happen? Maybe it will maybe it won't. There have been far worse tragedies that have happened in schools - some seriously nasty massacres in classrooms going back as far as classrooms go. Just cause one kid with a spiked bracelet and a Slipknot t-shirt goes nuts and starts shooting does not - and I mean NOT - mean that there are thousands of followers ready and willing to do the same. this is not Natural Born Killers. Most of the MallGoths are decent kids that simply haven't got enough self awareness to make their own decisions - let alone pull off a horrific incident.
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Perhaps I am just mistaken, and mallgoths have nothing to do with school shootouts? Maybe it is just thier insecurities rising? Perhaps I am mistaken, and they are infact truely goths, but I am too blind to see it? Who knows, but is there anyone on this site, who has an opinion, as to why I am seeing these connections, or if there is an answer? Maybe it is just the political rebellious atmosphere of nowaday, or, perhaps it is nothing less than my imagination.
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Mallgoths have nothing to do with school shootouts, any more than MallHoochieMamas have to with gang banger drive by's... They are not True Goths - if there even is such a thing. We've argued that in other threads for years. And again - it's not just nowadays. Think gangsters, rockers, greasers, punks, hippies, goths, I can't even think of them all... labeled youth "social groups" that have been considered the harbingers of doom in modern society over the decades. Don't get sucked into the marketing hype of it all. There are good people and bad people everywhere - no matter what they dress like.
The real question of: Why and how did these unstable kids ever get access to guns or other instruments of destruction? Well that's an excellent question that I can't answer and the media is unable or unwiling to really ask.
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