Give a Boy a Gun #3

As the book moves on, you get to see more and more of both Gary's and Brendan's suicide notes. In Gary's suicide note, he apologizes to his mother for the pain he is putting her though. He tells her she must move on and that he wishes he could be with her, but he is "at the point of no return." Gary's suicide note is way more different than Brendan's. Brendan is mad at the world in his note. He bashes the teachers and the parents of the town saying they are a huge reason for this. That the parents did a horrible job raising their kids and that kids are not safe at high school when they are a little different. "Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind." Brendan finds out that his neighbor has guns at his house at the end of his freshman year. When I read that part, I thought about gun control. That this could have been avoided if guns were illegal. Brendan says in the book a few times, "guns don't kill people, people kill people." In another email to Gary, Brendan talks about Columbine. He idolizes Harris and Klebold, the shooters at Columbine. He says, "I will kill ever friggin' one of them. It's gonna be Columbine all over again, only better." I wonder if all these recent school shootings have been done because they got the idea from Columbine. That maybe Harris and Klebold inspired more school shootings. My guess is that it certainly played a role in some school shootings.