Let us not forget an important aspect of the Columbine Massacre that has been shoved down the memory hole:
During the Columbine massacre, in which 15 people were murdered and 21 injured, a total of four firearms were involved. The murderers also employed four knives and 99 explosive devices.
Of the firearms, only one qualified under the 1994 federal law as a banned “assault rifle”. One firearm was a doubled barreled shotgun with a shortened barrel. It has long been a federal felony to saw down the barrel of a shotgun and it was also a felony to possess such an altered weapon.
Every single explosive device was a federal and state felony to assemble, possess and use, and to use in the commission of a crime.
If the memory of Columbine is ever brought up today, the failure of the law to stop the use of explosives in a school massacre is never mentioned. It is never mentioned because that gets in the way of a Gollum-like fixation on the Precious, starting with the banning of certain firearms and certain accessories but to eventually to banning all firearms.
So far, the Precious Thing that progressives think will allow Utopia to arrive has slipped from their grasp. Being able to keep and bear arms gives free people the power to defend themselves from dangerous people or dangerous government. The Truth also gives power to defend as well. It is only a matter of time before progressives want to ban it as well.
Notice that the above story did not mention any explosive devices. A headline on Drudgereport at this time says, “Pressure Cookers, Pipe Bombs”.
“Bomb Control” is not a winning issue for woke Progressives busy improving society.
Alienated sociopathic males, mostly white, and mostly suburban. If you are looking for what really ties them together, and I don’t want to sound like some bleeding heart liberal because I am anything but that, it is probably a lack of lap time. See when they went into daycare and how many years they spent in daycare before being shipped out to pre-k. There they were immersed in a world overwhelmingly hostile to boys, a matriarchy suitable for turning out Xulu warriors or sociopaths. After a dozen years in that environment what do you have? A kid who cannot relate or bond or cope.
School security basically never changed since Columbine.