These magic kids who could not reach out a hand and try and be a friend when someone in school was struggling. Where is the call to support and be a friend to someone who is obviously lonely and depressed? That of course would take them admitting that they probably did the opposite, ridiculed him and drove him deeper into depression. Most of his behavior was so obviously a cry for help that went ignored over and over. Kids don't act out with their behavior because they are bad kids or "rotten apples" they do it because they need something they are not getting. Unfortunately help was not provided.
I mean, even the superintendent of the school asks what's the point of trying to help:
"“Based on what’s reported in the media, here’s a kid who’s lost both parents, he’s obviously got some mental health challenges,” Runcie said. “Let me just say if we provided every service that we could and did all that in exemplary fashion, if he can still get access to guns what’s the point of all this?”
But nope, let's focus on guns, not helping people that need it. Sad that this is the point we reach. We do not want to tackle the root problem of a broken society and instead focus on the shiny object, or call him mentally ill to shift focus away from our own responsibility and onto the "other". None of these kids will say that they ignored him, made fun of him, did not try and be a friend. Instead they now have national notoriety, wiki pages, and countless articles about them, Hogg wants to be a journalist, ya know. There's nothing magical about seizing an opportunity for your own gain.
