America is the only homeland of people who live their history, art, schools, in short, with weapons everywhere in their lives. The American dream of fear and anxiety that has been successfully instilled in people by the media, companies and politicians. But this American dream, contrary to what we know, is a dream that confines people not to freedom, but to their homes to avoid crime and violence.
Actually, it is not a surprising picture in a place that is the center of capitalism. A state that makes and protects the poor poorer and the unprotected rich richer in order to develop. When we look at the history of most states, the violence, blood and death we can see is valid in America, perhaps even less than other states. Different ethnic structures live together here, as in most countries. The poor population is accepted as a lot, but again, when compared to other countries, there is no significant difference. So how can these people have such an intense urge to kill, as Columbine High School exemplifies? If owning guns were made more difficult, for example, if you went to a bank and opened an account and were prevented from giving you a gun as a gift after a very simple document analysis, if bullets were not sold even in barber shops in places where you only go for a haircut, if easy access to criminal tools were prevented, as the examples of the 12 people we see in the documentary are prevented. As the comedian in our movie says, accidental killing can be eliminated as long as the products such as guns, etc., which are sold in plain sight in the aisles of Kmart-style markets where bullets that cost people's lives are sold, are completely removed and access to guns is materially and morally hindered. The place where Eric and Dylan grew up is a gun paradise. After a childhood spent surrounded by guns and taking sides against people, they begin their high school lives, which are known as the center of terror in every sense for America. The fact that they are from a poor segment, that is, parents whose education level is in the suburban line, who have to work hours away from their children's homes to earn money rather than the glittering American life that is thought, has completely given up hope on the state and the police, and this may be due to the fact that their trust has been lost due to the sanctions of the state. Parents who are forced to use guns to protect themselves and their children. In addition, many families of children in that neighborhood work in the nearby arms factory. In other words, the people they would take as role models at a young age were going out every day to make guns and bombs to kill people. If they did not do this, that is, if they did not cause the death of others, they would face hunger or, worse still, the fear of death in their collective consciousness. Eric and Dylan are children who grew up with a makeshift education in a society that kills to survive, unaware of the existence of tolerance and conscience, and more importantly, they have lost their ability to hope, one of the most important vital functions of a human being. They were defined as asocial by their friends, that is why they did not have many friends, that is, they had very little social life, which is especially important for the health of that age group, and the inadequacy it created, and the fact that their social needs were not met. Based on McCleland's motivation theory, it can be thought that their asociality was effective. In addition, they live in a poor area. The fact that no matter how hard one works, the reward is not received is a good example of the negative outcome of the equality theory. People are like bombs waiting to revolt against the state, and they are intimidated by thoughts that fighting with the pen will fail, and they are holding on to their swords with completely learned helplessness. Families make mistakes in this regard. The fact that they own guns because of the great fear throughout the state, work madly with the fear of hunger, and deprive their children of the education they need to give them from an early age to have an autonomous personality and most importantly, unconditional love and a healthy attachment process, may have pushed their children to become murderers. Maybe this massacre was their way of telling their families and those around them that we were here too, we were living with you. Even in any image of fear that shows an example of classical conditioning in society, the people who directly grab their guns were perhaps as guilty as Eric and Dylan. Or the insufficient level of education that could cause him to misread an artist like Marilyn Monson is also to blame. Because it cannot teach the beauty of the flow of life, it cannot be a lesson. When Rak teaches children how to play bowling, he says to them, 'You are empty and useless people, the most valuable thing in life is that you can waste your time with such empty lessons. You don't need more. Because it instills a pessimistic way of thinking such as 'You are already exhausted, you will always continue like this'. I find it inappropriate to blame their friends in general because they have almost the same problems, both in the family and at school, but their insulting adjectives for Eric and Dylan can also be considered a motivating factor. One of the most important needs of people, which ranks second according to Maslow's hierarchy, is the need for 'security', which is not met, and people are expected to protect themselves on their own. In this insecure environment, Eric and Dylan, in particular, develop a healthy relationship but are deprived of their need for relationship. And the state and its toy media, which have made the American society cowardly and self-interested, should bear the biggest share of the blame. American rulers, who wage war directly to take advantage of the chaos in any country, are a sign of the importance of human life and freedom. They have so well imposed on their people that human life is unimportant that they can now consider massacres as normal events. And they have encouraged the guns of their people so well that owning a gun and being an American have become synonymous. These sanctions at the macro level appear at the micro level, as in Columbine High School.
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