This is becoming quite fascinating. This story is like a case history that the kid writes himself. He is telling the world how this happened and why. If you want to know and to understand, this should be required reading.
I bet 10 to 1 that jerks like Michael Moore will never read this book. If he did, he would shut the bleep up about gun control. Gun control has nothing to do with what happened here.
I've now read up to about age 13 of Eliot Roger's life. This is a point in which he describes as his "downfall". One problem with young Eliot is that he doesn't do well socially. He knows it too. He's no good at sports, either. I'm to the point now where he is considered by his peers to be somewhat weird. This is where I'll stop reading for now.
Let's reflect a bit on that. Couldn't young Eliot have gotten some attention and learned the social skills necessary for him to succeed better at life? What about his athletic prowess? Well, there are plenty of sports that he could have tried out for which would have given him a sense of accomplishment. For this, he needed an older male to teach him these things. He lacked this. That's lesson number one, for those of you who think that gun control will solve problems like this.
Putting him in therapy at age nine did nothing to address this? What does that say about his therapist?
I'm thinking archery and markmanship with a weapon might have worked for this kid. Nothing like being able to kick some ass that might give a kid confidence. Also, some martial arts. Here's where a slightly built kid may have learned how to handle himself and gotten some respect from his peers. Thirdly, get this kid to learn argumentation and debate. Nothing better than being able to out argue someone that will give a kid some confidence.
The kid talks a lot about his envy. About envy: I think it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said that envy is ignorance. All the kid needed was a little training. It was somebody's job to do that and it didn't get done.
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