According to government studies of school shootings, including an impressive document from the Department of Education, bullying can cause anger and thus has caused those bullied to strike out and shoot their fellow students. Bullying includes name-calling, taunts, and physical contact. Many school shooters claimed they had been treated badly and simply wanted payback. Reflecting on this, could human behavior or bullying, have played a part in the tiger mauling a few years ago? This is not to say that we should blame the victim, which is, in my opinion, a travesty. But there are more than human victims here aren’t there. As it stands, we do not know for sure, as several sources state, that the boys who survived the tiger mauling bullied and taunted her and may have instigated the attack. Whether they did or didn’t doesn’t bring the young man or the tiger back to us. But just the idea that they could have, necessitates a...
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