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"was carrying a bag full of edgy books: Gone Girl, Columbine, Ted Bundy, Zodiac, Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer"
"Columbine was a predictor of many facets of American culture. A true sign off of the 1900s and a sign of what to come for the 2000s and onward. Violent mass shootings at schools. Youth growing increasingly desperate, nihilistic, and extreme. Youths using the internet in ways that are confusing to ol"
"Columbines' Eric & Dylan's folks were civil engineers and Air Force pilots. Next time, notice in the B-roll how massive and new the school complex is. They always say it on the news like good middle class communities are the last place these happen, but it's the only place these happen."
"These cornballs influenced every similarly cringe attack since either directly or indirectly, so the basement tapes should be released solely because I am 99% sure they would be so corny and cringe that anyone even somewhat sympathising with them would be filled with such visceral second hand embarr"
"A dude that was in my very close friends group in high school put on a Bones mixtape that was a concept album about Columbine at a New Year's Eve party and I think about that like twice a month."
"Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Old Boy, Doom, Columbine, Woodstock 99, Marilyn Manson, Fight Club, Something awful, NewGrounds games. It was a much less politically polarized time but it's strange to look back on just how celebratory and gratioutus a lot of media was back then and how it feels almost"
"Not that columbine was cool but those guys had a reason to enact revenge on their own school. Hate crimes make more sense to me too, because those shooters FEEL like they have reasonable beef with whatever group they are targeting."
"I know the point about video games as a cause for this kind of violence is like 15-20 years old, but the Columbine shooters' references to the shooting being like Doom make much more sense in this context imo."
"Fast forward a few months and someone discovers an article about her in the papers, recognizing her from the selfies, revealing that she had tried (and failed) to shoot up a mall in Canada as some weird tribute to Columbine."