Kip Kinkle

Kip Kinkel

I believe that there were several different things that were contributing factors to why Kipland Kinkel killed both his parents, and later two of his fellow peers. I do not think that there is one specific thing that can be blamed for Kip’s behavior, but multiple things worked together to cause Kip’s explosion.

One of the smaller reasons that effected Kip was the somewhat confusing messages that his parents gave him as a child about guns. Kip had always as a child had a fascination with guns and explosives, but according to his sister there was a absolutely no violence policy in the Kinkel household, which forced Kip to his explosives and information from other sources. On Kip’s 12th birthday, his father gave in and Kip received a riffle from his father as a gift. From then on, Kip and his father would go to the back fields and do target practice. From age 12 and on Kip kept receiving guns from his father, but he also got them on his own.

When Kip’s obsession with guns and explosives got extremely out of control, his father made a new rule: Kip’s guns were constantly to be under lock and key, and he was only to use them under