Masculinity

In class we have been talking about the sociology behind school shootings. All of them are white boys who feel a need to re-establish their masculinity. Throughout the video and Kimmel's article I kept on thinking about the One Tree Hill school shooting episode. The writers got everything right. I watched the episode again and I really analyzed the sociology behind the episode. First of all, Jimmy (the school shooter) made a time capsule video about how much he hates school and all of social cliques. When the time capsule videos got released, everyone heard what Jimmy had to say. That night, he was beat up by a bunch of jocks. The next day, those same boys were messing up his locker and making fun of him. That's when it happened. Jimmy took out his gun and pulled the trigger. Jimmy quickly hid the gun and ran into lockdown rooms with the rest of the students. In his room, all of the people were discussing why somebody would bring a gun to school. Someone suggested that the person was crazy. Next, they suggested that they try to leave. Then, Jimmy took out his gun and proclaimed that nobody go anywhere. One guy tried to stand up to Jimmy and called him a fat-ass (hurting his masculinity). Jimmy asked a girl in the room if she even knew his name. She didn't. Jimmy said how he was practically invisible. Nobody knew he existed. His best day at school was when nobody said one word to him. That was depressing so he took some anti-depressants. For fun, he took 12 more. 2 weeks later when he returned to school, nobody knew he had been missing. Mouth (his former best friend) told him that things will get better and that he fix this. Jimmy got upset that Mouth was now trying to help because they haven't talked in years. Jimmy had no support system at school. He had no friends to turn to when things got rough. He thought that bringing the gun to school would make people notice him and maybe even respect him. I just think that this episode is a perfect explanation of why boys bring guns to school!