A simple animation of a couple of stick figures and one "shoots" another is enough to get you kicked out of school until you can pass a mental health test from a school psychologist? Jeez, I'd be considered a full blown threat by those standards. I used to draw all sorts of disturbing things while doodling around.
I used to have discussions with my chemistry teacher about explosives and ways of killing mass amounts of people (the first Gulf War was going on at the time and there were news reports of Saddam's bunkers), so we used to discuss how we would get around the problems of underground bunkers. Sure, it was unorthodox, but my teacher saw it as a way of encouraging thinking in chemistry, physics, and other scientific areas. I used to mix chemicals in my garage and make explosives and set them off in a nearby abandoned area. Safety first. :) I owned knives, guns (I got my first rifle at 5 which was stored at my Grandfather's house), and other assorted weaponry.
The difference is that I never thought about killing people around me. I knew what was right and what was wrong. That was taught to me at a very early age, and even though I went through an unorthodox "explosives, guns, knives" stage, it never went beyond good old fashioned curiosity.
The point is is that in today's society, school officials can't be too careful about even minor things that normal teenage boys think about. Otherwise you have a massacre on your hands and lawsuits up the ying yang. You'll have screaming parents crying "why didn't you do something about this". Hindsight is always 20/20.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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