I write fantasies, but draw from the world I see.
If that sometimes hurts, it’s because the truth usually does.
There were 30 more shootings at schools before 1900.
In 1903 a teacher accidentally shot a student he was attempting to pistol whip as part of corporeal punishment.
In 1966 one of the most famous school shootings before the modern era took place.
He killed 15 people and it was the deadliest school shooting in the country for a few decades.
Few people remember an incident that took place on April 26, 1988.
Stephen King says he wrote the first draft forRagewhile he was in high school himself in 1965.
The story follows Charlie Decker, a violent student at a high school in Maine.
Decker brings a gun to school and shoots his Alegbra teacher.
His classmates develop stockholm syndrome, eventually beating and subduing a student who tries to escape.
Throughout the book, King takes the reader through Charlies abusive childhood and shows how he became so sadistic.
The book ends with Charlie Decker being found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity.
Its an important question, because it goes to the very heart of the wrangle over whos to blame.
The answer is troubling, but it needs to be faced: in some cases, yes.
No, I dont believe so.
How often is too often?
Thats not for me or any other single person to say.
Once I knew what had happened, I pulled the ejection-seat lever on that particular piece of work.
I withdrew Rage, and I did it with relief rather than regret.
