Blogspot 7: America's most tragic school shooting

Columbine High School Massacre of 1999

I'm not an American so I have never heard of it, until now. I was watching certain video reviews about games when I came across one that was stated to be one of the most offensive games made called Super Columbine Massacre RPG. Based on the real Columbine Massacre event in 1999. Here I heard about how two mentally unstable boys shot their fellow students dead and then committed suicide. Here, I was shocked at its impact towards the nation, making "Columbine" synonymous to school shootings and rage.

So what caused all this?

The article in World Socialist Web Site by David North called American Pastoral...American Berserk states that their parents aren't the only ones to blame for this. Apparently, the school administrators ignored the warnings they received regarding the potential violence of the two. It is also not an individual failing, as this is common to all major institutions everywhere. They cannot blame just the parents of the boys like what the media did. Here, people started to search for scapegoats for fingers to point to. The article says how their acts did not just come being oppressed. It evolved from vengeance from their suffering to inflicting as much pain as possible. 

North says that "Something is driving them crazy. Something has set them against everything. Something is leading them into disaster." If they are not steered back to the right direction, disaster is imminent. Unless that something isn't stopped, it leads to destruction.Often the cause and motivation evolve from something painful to something that is monstrous. As such, it's important to identify and stop it.

However, according to USA Today 10 years later, the real story behind Columbine by Greg Toppo, the cause is not fully of being bullied. In fact, their journal writings have them admitting that they bullied others such as fags. Their problems is in being accepted by others, which is one of the reasons in bullying. However, by feeding these impulses, they started to become more monstrous. Deceiving the adults, planning for over a year and getting friends to acquire weapons. They had planned to kill everyone by detonating the school and they were going to shoot fleeing survivors, had their homemade bombs worked. They even rigged the car with bombs to explode in police. The homemade bomb never worked because of the cheap materials used. In short, the lesser income saved thousands. The point is, these things tell us to be careful of what we get. We're like sponges, we absorb what around us and, with a little pressure, oozes out what we absorbed.

Again, Toppo states from an expert that "One of the scary things is that money was one of the limiting factors here." The school was fortunate that only 13 were killed. The attack was the demonstration of what the two boys got. If say the boys (notably Harris from his part-time job) got enough for materials or if the bomb had worked, they would have killed thousands like what they envisioned.

So far, the case still remains a mystery.