Bowling for Columbine
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To sum up the tragic movie clip that we watched in class about Bowling for Columbine, was the case of a six year old boy, who had shot a six year old girl in Flint Michigan on March first of two thousand. It was said to have been the youngest school shooting in history. The six year old boy had a confrontation with the six year old girl the day before it was not said over what. The boy then went home and because he had nobody that he was able to talk to in his life because the boy was from a single parent home ware he is barley able to see his mother because she works two towns away and has to hold down two jobs to be able to support her family and survive in an impoblished area ware they lived, that was a block away from ware the shooting took place. Tamara, the boys mother was living with her brother at the time who had owned a thirty two caliber hand gun. We again do not know what type of activities her brother was into living in that neighborhood, or if it was simply for protection. The six year old boy then found it and brought it to school and in the middle of a crowded hallway shot one shot into the crowed ware it then entered into the six year old girls neck and killed her. Now how is that likely if the six year old boy has never shoot a gun before in his life? We dont know the answer to that yet. However we do know that eighty six percent of the people that lived in Flent Michigan were below the poverty line. Due to this increasingly high number of people that are living below the poverty line; the number one cause of death in Flent Michigan is Homicide.
The theory that I choose for this case was the social process theory. It looks at the interactions between individuals and their environments that they have grown up in. For example most adolescent children are influenced by family members, school experiences, and interactions with peers, which cause them to do peer pressure to fit into todays society. This in my eyes is a big factor that influences them to become involved in delinquent behavior. We do not know for sure what had caused this young boy to snap and kill his school mate. All we can do is give what we think our insight on the matter would be and my insight would be that, he was in a broken home which consisted of living with his mother in a poor neighborhood ware he was always around crime. Not being able to have the quality time with his mother that he had needed because she was always working to try to provide for her family. So in all reality all he had was his peers, who he was trying to fit in with. I can not say for certainty that this is the case in this situation but I believe Tamaras brother had a big influence on why the six year old boy had done what he did because of the fact that he was the only one that he was actually around and was use to seeing. Therefore all the boy saw was the influence that Tamaras brother had on him. With what he