Michael S. Kimmel On A-School Shootings

a- School violence has become such an issue in this country that researchers started questioning the reasons behind all the shootings and killings happening throughout the U.S. taking in consideration that parents nowadays are afraid of sending their children to school because it’s not safe anymore. The Author Michael S. Kimmel in his article “I am not insane; I am angry” is trying to grab the audience attention by addressing how serious this problem is, he managed to describe how people should think and how to ask the right questions in order to get to the main cause and fix it quickly and effectively. Kimmel’s main idea was to show that we as Americans should try to see the bigger picture, identify the content of the shootings and accept …show more content…
The writer is claiming that we should always look for the shooters’ family dynamics, psychological problems, peer relations, adolescence, and whether he’s been bullied for his sexuality and gender identity in order to get a clear idea of what they have been going through their lives. Because it’s not about the demographic profile of them but instead their lifestyles and their interests in life (Kimmel). In addition to that, many of the cases they were not gay but that didn’t stop their peers from bullying them because they were slightly different from the other guys. Some of them were shy, geek, and more serious than the others when it comes to their education but all of those were not the actual triggers for their actions but in fact taking away their manhood was, for example, calling them names such as faggots, homos, loners, and queers. Kimmel’s article finds the origins of school violence in the gender related factors, for instance, homophobia and adolescent