The Colombine Shootings [Archive]

a1b23

04-20-2009, 09:53 AM

Today is the 10th Anniversary of the Shootings at Colombine High School in Colorado. Some of you may not remember it but I can't believe it's been 10 years. Does anyone have any thoughts or comments?

Blixinator

04-20-2009, 10:01 AM

420 RAHH

I was just a wee lad when this happened. I don't remember hearing anything about in on the news when it happened.

Liokae

04-20-2009, 10:02 AM

Remember how they were caused by video games?

Good times.

Fabian920

04-20-2009, 10:33 AM

Well, if I was religious I would say god save their souls or something along those lines.

I'm not.

So I will just say: wrong place, wrong time?

It's also really cool how video games got blamed not cuban gun dealers...

e p

04-20-2009, 01:02 PM

I remember in kindergarten my teacher was talking about some shooting. I didn't even understand what happened.

It wasn't until a little later that I actually understood...

Defective

04-20-2009, 01:40 PM

I was a youngin' but I sort of remember people talking about it. It's pretty sad, I watched something on it awhile ago and you got to see people being shot and the two kids walking around geared up in guns. I feel bad for the families, but hopefully this won't happen again.

awesomejohn8

04-20-2009, 01:46 PM

I wasn't near the place but i felt bad for the people and their families

Zapurdead

04-20-2009, 02:12 PM

I was a youngin' but I sort of remember people talking about it. It's pretty sad, I watched something on it awhile ago and you got to see people being shot and the two kids walking around geared up in guns. I feel bad for the families, but hopefully this won't happen again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Notable_shootings
Remember, Columbine was the first major shooting.

game-bot

04-20-2009, 02:19 PM

What the hell makes it the first major shooting?

Unless by major, you mean "an additional 5 people dead".

Besides, I don't think it was that tragic to continue uhh celebrating its anniversaries.

I mean, look at this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis That's a hell of alot worse.

I Faw Down

04-20-2009, 03:07 PM

Has anyone else played the Doom maps the shooters made?

They sucked...

poguemahon

04-20-2009, 04:08 PM

You gotta appreciate the irony... A big day for potheads, Hitler's birthday, and also the day Columbine was shot... It's one hell of a day, and two out of three aspects are negative.

Anyway, why are we talking about Columbine, it was a horrible day.

Vince

04-20-2009, 04:13 PM

They released some more stuff about the Columbine shootings.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm?

zakob

04-20-2009, 04:49 PM

You gotta appreciate the irony... A big day for potheads, Hitler's birthday, and also the day Columbine was shot... It's one hell of a day, and two out of three aspects are negative.

Yea, hitler's birthday is the only positive aspect of the day. XD

Zapurdead

04-20-2009, 04:59 PM

They released some more stuff about the Columbine shootings.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm?
Wait what?
One side of the story is seriously ####ed up, but one side then has to be right.
Wtfs is this?

Mykester

04-20-2009, 05:03 PM

Remember how they were caused by video games?

Good times.

Nuh uh. It was Marylin Manson obviously.

Weezy

04-20-2009, 05:35 PM

Trench Coat Mafia!!! All day, no play! Ye digg? No, but this was very sad. R.I.P

KiDULTHOOD

04-21-2009, 07:23 PM

They released some more stuff about the Columbine shootings.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm?

haha i love the comments on that article

Vagrant

04-23-2009, 02:07 AM

What I find interesting is how quick people are to blame the wrong thing for what caused such horrific events, or create myths surrounding the events.

These kids were textbook examples of mental illness, only they had the ability to make it pretty terrible. It wasn't games, or bullies that made them do it. They did it because they were screwed up in the head.

DarkReality

04-23-2009, 02:26 AM

What do you mean? It was OBVIOUSLY the United States' lack of decent gun laws.

Raewynn Saoirse

04-23-2009, 02:31 AM

What I find interesting is how quick people are to blame the wrong thing for what caused such horrific events, or create myths surrounding the events.

These kids were textbook examples of mental illness, only they had the ability to make it pretty terrible. It wasn't games, or bullies that made them do it. They did it because they were screwed up in the head.

Well... it's just more of psychology as to why people do that. It's in several parts sensationalism and also part of the grieving process. Directly for the people that are right there, and indirectly through a sense of "it could happen here" for people far away.

When something happens like that, people need something to blame, and it's far easier to have a target for grief and rage than to put it on something that can't be helped. If it was because of videogames, or bullies, or music, or anything like that... something could have been done. If we could just get rid of those things then it would all be alright and we wouldn't have to worry.

But if it's just something that happens... when the only reason is that some kids just aren't right in the head... it's unbearably hard for people to accept. So while they're still in shock, they latch onto whatever explanation is thrown up because if they didn't, they end up feeling powerless... and then by the time the incident has cooled down enough to think rationally again, they've already internalized that thought of "It was the fault of <x>!", because they didn't have to go through the full grieving process.

I'd be willing to bet quite a lot that the people directly affected by Columbine have accepted the real reasons behind it much more than the rest of the nation has.

Mr.Man the man

04-25-2009, 07:18 PM

i was three....

shane23

04-25-2009, 07:22 PM

I was only 4, but I remember my mom crying and trying to call her friend whose daughter went there. She was one of the survivors.

poguemahon

04-25-2009, 10:46 PM

I was 9, and coming home from church when my mom was listening to the radio, and was telling me and my brothers about it. She was scared it would happen at my school.

a1b23

04-26-2009, 01:46 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Notable_shootings
Remember, Columbine was the first major shooting.

Yeah and it was the start of all the kill others than kill myself kind of shootings. Think about it all other school shootings (or big shootings in general) usually the shooter kills people and then kills him/herself. We talked about it in psychology last year. I think they reason they kill themselves is to escape prosecution or something. I don't remember.