re: 17 Years Ago the Columbine Massacre happened

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No they weren't. They weren't complete outcasts but Harris was not particularly well liked.Brooks Brown was quite clear on that in the AMA.

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Brooks Brown isn't some sanctified impartial source. He exaggerates the same pretty tame "bullying" stories for effect again and again. Harris wasn't some chick magnet Joe Cool, as another author has ludicrously tried to frame it either; the truth is in the middle. Harris was fair to middling popular. He had a cute girlfriend, multiple normal friends and was socially involved. Klebold was not, but that wasn't because he was some poor put-upon loner. He was a mentally messed up rich kid with a private tennis court and an anger problem who intentionally antagonized people and was the kind of guy who when walking the halls would intentionally clip other dudes' shoulders to start shite. He basically ostracized himself.