The Columbine massacre, a school shooting and attempted domestic terrorist bombing often referred to simply as Columbine, was perpetrated by students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
A side note about the Columbine Massacre- the Government has been studying the effects of living at high altitudes & how it affects the mentally ill. Most medical professionals agree the Columbine killers were a case of one psychopath leading a depressed sociopath into doing some extremely evil things. A friend of mine almost lost a relative in this incident so the average American feel very sad about how an event like this could occur.
Even though mass shooting events themselves were common before Columbine, Columbine was heavily mythologized by the press and by supposed experts who frequently contradict themselves to suggest that neither mental illness nor bullying were causative factors despite how clear it is that both were.
I was living 20 miles north of Columbine High School on 4/20/1999. All of the 300-plus police officers who responded to the Columbine mass shooting made it home safe and sound that night. Regarding the date of the attack, most think it has to do with the fact Hitler's birthday is 4/20/1889. Or that in Colorado 4/20 is the annual "dope day". Before marijuana was legalized in Colorado every year on 4/20 thousands of people would gather at the Colorado State capital in downtown Denver and smoke dope openly and taunt the police. I think it had more to do with Hitler. There is a lot of minutiae in this story. The most shocking was they (won't say their names) self-killed so soon after it started. Their burning that's all that matters.
A lot was made of that supposed connection to Hitler but the date seemed to be random. In their journals it was unclear, but may have been planned for the day before, which was the anniversary of the OKC bombing, and which they explicitly wrote about the attack being influenced by... but they were waiting on delivery of more ammunition from their friend Manes, which he didn't deliver until the evening of the 19th.
Also, Klebold was Jewish (on his mothers side of the family).
A side note about the Columbine Massacre- the Government has been studying the effects of living at high altitudes & how it affects the mentally ill. Most medical professionals agree the Columbine killers were a case of one psychopath leading a depressed sociopath into doing some extremely evil things. A friend of mine almost lost a relative in this incident so the average American feel very sad about how an event like this could occur.
Even though mass shooting events themselves were common before Columbine, Columbine was heavily mythologized by the press and by supposed experts who frequently contradict themselves to suggest that neither mental illness nor bullying were causative factors despite how clear it is that both were.
I was living 20 miles north of Columbine High School on 4/20/1999. All of the 300-plus police officers who responded to the Columbine mass shooting made it home safe and sound that night. Regarding the date of the attack, most think it has to do with the fact Hitler's birthday is 4/20/1889. Or that in Colorado 4/20 is the annual "dope day". Before marijuana was legalized in Colorado every year on 4/20 thousands of people would gather at the Colorado State capital in downtown Denver and smoke dope openly and taunt the police. I think it had more to do with Hitler. There is a lot of minutiae in this story. The most shocking was they (won't say their names) self-killed so soon after it started. Their burning that's all that matters.
A lot was made of that supposed connection to Hitler but the date seemed to be random. In their journals it was unclear, but may have been planned for the day before, which was the anniversary of the OKC bombing, and which they explicitly wrote about the attack being influenced by... but they were waiting on delivery of more ammunition from their friend Manes, which he didn't deliver until the evening of the 19th.
Also, Klebold was Jewish (on his mothers side of the family).
“ The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray “