# Are high income kids "at risk"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-high-income-kids-at-risk/175464 "2003-05-15T16:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-high-income-kids-at-risk/175464/21 "2003-05-17T02:14:28Z")
> [@](#): > > One was that shootings don’t happen in inner-city schools. Actually, they happen quite a bit in the LA area, but it pains me to say that we are more used to it and it doesn’t get nationally reported and “oooh’d” over. I can’t speak about LA, but although shootings at school are not uncommon in NYC, they are not Columbine-type shootings. I was shocked by Columbine- not by the fact that there was a shooting in a school, but by the difference between it and the school shootings I’m used to hearing about. The shootings in NY are more personal- A shoots B during a robbery, or because B insulted A’s girlfriend, or belongs to a rival gang or even because he was trying to shoot C and B got in the way. Shootings like that outside of school get maybe one day’s worth of coverage on a local level, just like the ones in school. Columbine on the other hand, was much more like the mass murder at the McDonald’s in California or the DC area sniper- multiple, random victims , and no apparent reason for the shooting. Both of those cases received coverage comparable to Columbine. ---
**Author:** ![McDiddys\_View](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@McDiddys\_View](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDiddys_View)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-high-income-kids-at-risk/175464/22 "2003-05-17T04:09:21Z")
More security in suberb schools?!? What the hell was moore smoking? (yes I tend to say that alot) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-high-income-kids-at-risk/175464/23 "2003-05-18T00:24:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by McDiddys View \* > If you think about it, have you people ever heard of a school shooting massacre in the inner city schools? If not it is for two possable reasons. > \*\* You do realize that school massacres like Colombine are rare in ANY type of school, right? I’m pretty sure that overall, school violence is more prevalent in the poorer schools. I too find some of the rich-bashing funny. Can we think of any more wealthy stereotypes: -Rich people are all lawyers, doctors, bankers and stockbrokers, all lawyers, doctors, bankers and stockbrokers are rich -Murders are mostly committed by bored wealthy kids trying to get a thrill -Wealthy kids can freely rape anyone they choose -Most rich kids are into drugs. alchohol, and partying -Rich people must have done something unethical to become rich -All wealthy families are disfunctional and consist of bored, arrogant teenagers who are angry because divorced dad spends all his time in Aspen with new Mom who’s almost a teenager herself -All wealthy people are good looking and dress well and in other words look wealthy -Older wealthy men wear a tophat and a monocle [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-high-income-kids-at-risk/175464.md?page=1)