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re: 17 Years Ago the Columbine Massacre happened
Posted on 4/21/16 at 6:03 am to RebelFreeze48
Posted on 4/21/16 at 6:03 am to RebelFreeze48
And now I feel old.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 7:51 am to link
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FALSE. most kids can roll with the punches, so to speak, but dopeheads are a different breed. it's no coincidence this happened on 4/20. it's well-documented that hardcore drugs and violence are intrinsically linked.
I would like to spend a day in your world. I bet it's interesting if nothing else.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:03 am to dukke v
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. But what these kids did changed how kids walked the halls of schools all over the country for years. I have heard of stories of kids skipping school just cause they were scared of a repeat attack . IMO this tragedy changed a lot about how schools were run across the country.
I ALWAYS wondered and still do, why schools (to this day, crazy) did not install metal detectors or xray checkpoints across the board after this. The crazy thing about this (and the subsequent shootings up til now) is that to this very day, you could pack heat in your booksack, go to Any School, USA, and blast people. They have not put any precautions in after this. I know some schools have metal detectors in bad areas. but still, it amazes me nothing was done to prevent this besides banning trench coats.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:07 am to musick
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I know some schools have metal detectors in bad areas. but still, it amazes me nothing was done to prevent this besides banning trench coats.
lots of school require clear backpacks, but yeah, I get your point
I think its mostly the "it can't happen here" mentality
I remember in my HS, right after Columbine, we had to evacuate school because some chick told a teacher that one of our "trench coat mafia" showed her his kill list
poor guy never lived that down, even though it was completely false (same girl also claimed false rape later), he eventually had to transfer because he was forever the "he is going to kill us" kid
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:14 am to Salmon
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I remember in my HS, right after Columbine, we had to evacuate school
I was in HS at the time as well. We had to evacuate school about once a week after Columbine. It became a major interruption. They hadn't taken out all of the payphones yet back in 99-00, so kids could walk or drive off campus, put in a prank threat at a payphone, and school would be evacuated for 45+ minutes for a bomb search.
This post was edited on 4/21/16 at 8:15 am
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:21 am to Dam Guide
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That school had an extreme bully issue for pretty much everyone.
Nothing I have read about it sounds different than my high school. I think the whole meme of Columbine specifically having an exceptional bullying problem results from the biased perceptions of the people in media reporting on it, who were in their 40s and 50s and had no perspective on modern public high schools. My high school had black vs. hispanic race riots and Quannel X held a rally on our front steps. Harris and Klebold had it EASY. They were just a couple of psychopaths looking for an excuse. Probably would have become serial killers if not for this.
This post was edited on 4/21/16 at 8:23 am
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:29 am to musick
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I ALWAYS wondered and still do, why schools (to this day, crazy) did not install metal detectors or xray checkpoints across the board after this. The crazy thing about this (and the subsequent shootings up til now) is that to this very day, you could pack heat in your booksack, go to Any School, USA, and blast people. They have not put any precautions in after this. I know some schools have metal detectors in bad areas. but still, it amazes me nothing was done to prevent this besides banning trench coats.
I work in the school system, its too expensive to take these precautions, especially in rural towns and counties/parishes. Look at Louisiana, we have been cutting funding to schools and college left and right, where would the money come from to buy metal detectors etc? At the school I work at their is a high school, Jr high and two elementary schools all with in a 5 mile radius and we only have one cop that polices all 4.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:32 am to WHS
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I work in the school system, its too expensive to take these precautions, especially in rural towns and counties/parishes. Look at Louisiana, we have been cutting funding to schools and college left and right, where would the money come from to buy metal detectors etc? At the school I work at their is a high school, Jr high and two elementary schools all with in a 5 mile radius and we only have one cop that polices all 4.
I had a feeling this was the sole reason and it makes me sad to think the safety of ALL our children is leveraged on lack of funding. I know money doesn't grow on trees (and esp in education, my wife's a teacher, I understand) Just makes me sick to think about.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:34 am to Scoop
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The girl that was killed for believing in Jesus never happened.
Rachel Scott was her name right?
Was there any reference to them not liking Christianity in their diaries or Christians in general? I am genuinely curious.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:34 am to Cooter Davenport
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Nothing I have read about it sounds different than my high school. I think the whole meme of Columbine specifically having an exceptional bullying problem results from the biased perceptions of the people in media reporting on it, who were in their 40s and 50s and had no perspective on modern public high schools. My high school had black vs. hispanic race riots and Quannel X held a rally on our front steps. Harris and Klebold had it EASY. They were just a couple of psychopaths looking for an excuse. Probably would have become serial killers if not for this.
Your high school probably had it an issue with it too. I graduated the year before Columbine at a very similar size public school with similar demographics and was a bullied kid up until I hit my growth spurt junior year. I didn't have anywhere near as bad as a lot kids did there from student accounts.
Bullying had gotten out of hand a lot of places and needed to be addressed, so it wasn't really a bad thing that situations like this brought the subject a little more attention. I agree it didn't really play much a part in this though. They had chances to kill some of the bullies and chose other targets.
This post was edited on 4/21/16 at 8:36 am
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:36 am to Dam Guide
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That school had an extreme bully issue for pretty much everyone.
is it really bullying if everyone gets bullied?
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:37 am to Dam Guide
the bullying didn't seem that bad to me
I mean...a kid got raped with a coke bottle in my HS, so throwing some glitter on a kid seems pretty mild
I mean...a kid got raped with a coke bottle in my HS, so throwing some glitter on a kid seems pretty mild
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:40 am to Hogwarts
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Rachel Scott was her name right? Was there any reference to them not liking Christianity in their diaries or Christians in general? I
That was one and Cassie Bernall was also credited with saying it. Rachel's brother claimed it was Cassie but I think he misidentified where she was killed.
I think someone that survived was actually the one questioned, forget who it was, but it probably happened just wasn't any way like it was reported.
This post was edited on 4/21/16 at 8:49 am
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:42 am to Dire Wolf
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is it really bullying if everyone gets bullied?
Yes
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:43 am to lsupride87
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Think how fcking stupid that is
A guy killed 77 people with a gun, and he will be released after 21 years
That is some scary shite
IIRC, 21 years is the max sentence their justice system can give. After 21 years, he'll be "up for parole", so to speak, but they'll just give him another 21 years. He's not getting out
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:46 am to Salmon
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the bullying didn't seem that bad to me
again, maybe this is looking at in hindsight but we always knew not mess with a few kids at my school.
The worst bullying I ever saw was more mental. A dude sent a power point professing his love to a girl, it was super creepy. It got sent to the entire school by one of her friends. Dude left ended up leaving the school.
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a kid got raped with a coke bottle in my HS
alright, I got to hear this story.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:49 am to Dire Wolf
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is it really bullying if everyone gets bullied?
At my high school it was sort of like prison. I wouldn't call it bullying, just a general prison atmosphere where everyone was trying to survive everyone else. I used to watch Oz, which was on HBO at the time, and take notes on how to survive in a prison environment. Mostly: don't start no s*** won't be no s***. Klebold, and kids like him where I went to school, brought it on himself by trying to publicly and visibly go against the grain and antagonize people in order to get attention and notoriety. He had a personality disorder.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:51 am to Cooter Davenport
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At my high school it was sort of like prison
sounds like you went to Westberry or Pearland or some other dumpy Houston high school
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:52 am to Dam Guide
I went to Pearl HS and ran late for school that morning. I had to pick up two more of my friends that day. I was in 5th grade home room with Woodham.
Pearl could NOT have been worse since Woodham didn't have any explosives, but it was the event that really started the ball rolling. Woodham was a piece of shite. You have to be a piece of shite to kill your own mother.
I had a buddy get shot in the leg. He said he was in the library when he heard what sounded like "books slamming from some student dropping them down from the second floor."
He said he walked out and saw woodham shooting and he said he took off and ran all the way down to the band hall. Once he got down there, he looked at his leg and it was bleeding.
Woodham didn't wear his glasses that day. He wore these thick coke bottle glasses. So, he wasn't that great of a shot. The kids he didn't kill had fragments of ceramic tile in their leg where he was shooting down in front of them and the tile would fly up and lodge into the people's legs.
I had another friend who was actually a friend of Woodhams who fell down and he said Luke walked up to him and told him he was sorry and put the gun to his head and it went "click". He ran out of bullets for that particular gun. He got up and ran like hell.
Luke was a coward.
Pearl could NOT have been worse since Woodham didn't have any explosives, but it was the event that really started the ball rolling. Woodham was a piece of shite. You have to be a piece of shite to kill your own mother.
I had a buddy get shot in the leg. He said he was in the library when he heard what sounded like "books slamming from some student dropping them down from the second floor."
He said he walked out and saw woodham shooting and he said he took off and ran all the way down to the band hall. Once he got down there, he looked at his leg and it was bleeding.
Woodham didn't wear his glasses that day. He wore these thick coke bottle glasses. So, he wasn't that great of a shot. The kids he didn't kill had fragments of ceramic tile in their leg where he was shooting down in front of them and the tile would fly up and lodge into the people's legs.
I had another friend who was actually a friend of Woodhams who fell down and he said Luke walked up to him and told him he was sorry and put the gun to his head and it went "click". He ran out of bullets for that particular gun. He got up and ran like hell.
Luke was a coward.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:52 am to Dire Wolf
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alright, I got to hear this story.
pretty straight forward
small, shy kid that got picked on a lot was held down in the locker room, someone put a coke bottle in his arse, then another came up and stepped on the coke bottle
everyone called the kid "opossum" because well...he looked like a opossum
I'm really glad I was an athlete and somewhat popular so I didn't have to deal with the shite that the shy kids did in my HS. It was brutal.
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