and when they do so, they only come off as jerkasses with a sense of entitlement. The book is fair enough to let them and the other popular kids present their side of the story.

Jerk Jock: Sam Flach and the rest of the football team are portrayed as this.

High School Dance: The scene of the shooting.

Firing in the Air a Lot: Brendan and Gary do this during their rampage.

They also blow off a Jerk Jock's kneecaps so that he can never play football again.

Break the Haughty: The boys' main intent was to scare the people at the dance - it's debatable whether they were actually trying to kill anyone.

And later, he gets knee capped for being such a giant dick.

He regularly harasses other kids and his inflated sense of self-importance is just sickening. The very first page declares that a portion of all proceeds from each book sold is being donated to the Million Mom March Foundation. The book is told in interviews with the killers' family, friends, classmates, teachers and neighbors, and explores the myriad causes of school violence.Ĭomes down very firmly on the 'anti-gun' side of American Gun Politics. It is about a pair of High School outcasts, Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle, who decide to shoot up their High School Dance as a way of getting Revenge on the jocks who had picked on them and the faculty members who had ignored their plight or even encouraged the school's culture of bullying. Give a Boy a Gun is a Young Adult novel by Todd Strasser published in 2002. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the 'Trope Workshop' found on the 'Troper Tools' menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the 'fair use' licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.

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Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser