Bullying, school shooting

In the spring days of May 2021, celebrating the next date of Victory over fascism, living under a peaceful sky, we witnessed terrible events in Kazan. This brutal massacre of defenseless children and teachers speaks of the war that is going on inside this shooter and not only him, but many others like him, misunderstood, unheard, abandoned, offended.

The mass murder of students, committed by a school student or a stranger who entered the school with a weapon, is called school shooting. This term gained wide publicity after an incident in 1999 in one of the states of America in a high school, where two students shot 13 schoolchildren and then committed suicide. By their actions, American teenagers created a new behavior scenario that was accepted by many other teenagers around the world, and since 2014, in Russia.

No matter where in the world school massacres occur, acts of school shooting have common features:

- all attackers were male,

- the attackers had a specific goal,

- the attacks were not spontaneous,

- the attackers talked about their plans to attack the school through social networks,

- suicide attempts after a crime,

- often, the attackers were victims of bullying from classmates.

We all remember the wonderful Soviet film “Scarecrow” about the girl Lena Bessoltseva, who became a victim of aggression and psychological pressure from her classmates…