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If this took place now Neil would have shot up everybody in the school before killing himself.


It would be all over CNN and schools go down for that sort of thing.

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He wasn't angry with the school or society in general, he was just angry with his dad. His suicide was paying his father back.

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I don't think it was even payback. He didn't see a way out. His father was controlling his life and had his entire future laid out before him.

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