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re: 20 years ago today - Columbine High School massacre- where were you?
Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:52 am to Jody Baw
Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:52 am to Jody Baw
Was 26 years old. I had just spent a couple of weeks working all over the state of Colorado doing telephone work. Me and 2 co-workers had gotten up early the morning of the shooting to drive back to Louisiana. I was in the back seat of the truck sleeping and woke up to the news being on the radio. Literally felt like a bad dream.
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Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:52 am to Jody Baw
Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:59 am to Jody Baw
I was there, on the grassy knoll
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:09 pm to Jody Baw
Was in kindergarten so don’t remmber much of it at the time
But after doing 2 papers on it in high school, it led into a rabbit hole of research for many years. Read the timeline of the shooting and the teens’ diaries, watched their home videos with friends (had many), read the transcript of the unreleased basement tapes and even read pieces of the official 11k page report
It’s truly one of the most bizarre and senseless events in this country’s history. Also some huge misconceptions about the whole thing. And a lot of people forget that it was never intended to be a “school shooting”. They had piss-poor made propane bombs (the CCTV video of them planting them in a crowded cafeteria is still on YouTube), but these dudes had full intentions of murdering over 200 of their own classmates, friends they hung out with the day before included. Even said in one of their tapes “hopefully the most deaths in US history”. It only became a shooting after they waited at the top of some stairs outside of the school for their bombs to go off.
It’s still a confusing event. How 2 middle class white kids with friends and what seemed like a normal life in suburban Denver just came up with the idea to murder hundreds of their fellow students literally a couple weeks before graduation. The amount of lives lost by sick fricks inspired by 2 those teenagers the past 20 years is a tough pill to swallow.
But after doing 2 papers on it in high school, it led into a rabbit hole of research for many years. Read the timeline of the shooting and the teens’ diaries, watched their home videos with friends (had many), read the transcript of the unreleased basement tapes and even read pieces of the official 11k page report
It’s truly one of the most bizarre and senseless events in this country’s history. Also some huge misconceptions about the whole thing. And a lot of people forget that it was never intended to be a “school shooting”. They had piss-poor made propane bombs (the CCTV video of them planting them in a crowded cafeteria is still on YouTube), but these dudes had full intentions of murdering over 200 of their own classmates, friends they hung out with the day before included. Even said in one of their tapes “hopefully the most deaths in US history”. It only became a shooting after they waited at the top of some stairs outside of the school for their bombs to go off.
It’s still a confusing event. How 2 middle class white kids with friends and what seemed like a normal life in suburban Denver just came up with the idea to murder hundreds of their fellow students literally a couple weeks before graduation. The amount of lives lost by sick fricks inspired by 2 those teenagers the past 20 years is a tough pill to swallow.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:11 pm to Jody Baw
Not sure where I was. Honestly didn’t really give a shite enough to remember.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:14 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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A symptom of a sickness in American society.
Uhhhhh no.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:14 pm to LCA131
You're thinking of Kip Kipling I bet.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:16 pm to GCTiger11
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t’s still a confusing event. How 2 middle class white kids with friends and what seemed like a normal life in suburban Denver just came up with the idea to murder hundreds of their fellow students literally a couple weeks before graduation. The amount of lives lost by sick fricks inspired by 2 those teenagers the past 20 years is a tough pill to swallow.
Yeah those boys were twisted. Evil incarnate.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:18 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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You're thinking of Kip Kipling I bet.
Kip Kinkel..(I looked it up)...
he killed his parents, went to the school with three guns and two knives and killed two more people and wounded a bunch. Sentenced in Oregon and still fighting his conviction spending more of our money and appealing everything he can.
They should give him a shot tomorrow.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:21 pm to Jody Baw
Partying like it was 1999.
It didn't register at the time.
It didn't register at the time.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:21 pm to Ted2010
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Don't forget the one in Pearl that happened in 1997
I’m not.. had a few friends in colleges whos’ parents Worked at Pearl high school then..
What I mean is that Columbine is the “ gold standard” of school shootings that everything else is measured against .
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:24 pm to Cdawg
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the Vice Principal at the high school apprehended him with his own pistol.
My dad coached and was an administrator at Pearl for 7-8 years, and is good friends with this guy. He may be retired now, but he was still working there a few years ago..
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:25 pm to Jody Baw
I wasn’t born yet
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:26 pm to genuineLSUtiger
I read the “columbine” book. Harris was the truly disturbed one. Klebold was just very depressed and was caught up in it. Harris planned it for a long time. By today’s standards they would have been caught ahead of time no doubt. They recruited unsuccessfully. Built pipe bombs and lots of friends knew about it. Went shooting in the mountains. And had notebooks detailing what they would dow and how they hoped it would play out. Harris wanted to blow up the school, hence them shooting at the propane dud in the cafeteria. They also had a propane bomb in the car where they thought the first responders would congregate. They were correct on that, thankfully they didn’t have the bombs anywhere close to correctly set up.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:26 pm to LCA131
Ya I believe some kids charged him in the cafeteria to end it.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:28 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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Ya I believe some kids charged him in the cafeteria to end it.
Incorrect. They never had anyone try and physically stop em. They waited for the car bomb to go off. When it didn’t they blew there heads off. In the library where they killed most of the kids.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:29 pm to Jody Baw
Sr in high school
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:30 pm to Jody Baw
I was 15 and I think a sophomore at Jesuit. I remember the “trench coat mafia” becoming a thing, and some of the nerds in ROTC started wearing black trench coats and that freaked some people out. Needless to say that nonsense ended quickly.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:35 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Harris was the true psychopath. Harris provides direction to the other kid who was depressed and suicidal.
It’s a good thing all the bombs they set up had such badly constructed timers. Otherwise, it would have been so much worse.
It’s a good thing all the bombs they set up had such badly constructed timers. Otherwise, it would have been so much worse.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 12:39 pm to Paluka
Harris was not a big fan of the way in which western society was advancing. He was a harbinger of things to come. He just wanted to watch the whole thing burn down and was planning to firebomb the entire school.
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