The Boys Are Not All Right
I was relentlessly bullied as a kid because I was not the typical boy type (which sane people now associate with a toxic masculinity). At one point my bullies (there are always a group that picks on the one) chased me onto a 20 meter dam where I fell into its spillway and almost drowned. My pursuers were never punished.<p>The only reason I didn&#x27;t become a school shooter is because I literally did not know how to get a gun. I didn&#x27;t live in a community where there was any kind of gun culture. That&#x27;s all. If I would have had access to a gun I would have tried to kill them. Because they were, to any point of rationality, on a direct course to killing me. I felt like it was me or them.<p>I am <i>the</i> school shooter poster child for gun control. Because I couldn&#x27;t get a gun, I survived my ordeal and became a productive member of society. We need common sense gun control.