Posted on 06/02/2018 1:57:05 PM PDT by Twotone
SANTA FE, Tex. — The exact reasons a teenage gunman shot his fellow students and teachers here at Santa Fe High School remain a mystery. His model for carrying it out is more clear.
The 17-year-old junior wore a black trench coat and fired a sawed-off shotgun, the same attire and weaponry used by the two gunmen who killed a dozen students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.
He wore a T-shirt with the phrase “Born to Kill” on it in bold, similar in design to those worn by the Columbine attackers, which read “Wrath” and “Natural Selection.”
His crude arsenal included canisters of carbon-dioxide gas and Molotov cocktails, two types of explosives used by the Columbine gunmen.
The picture he had posted of his trench coat on Facebook showed a small red-star medallion with the Communist hammer-and-sickle on the collar, the same type of button a Columbine gunman attached to his boot.
It was not the first time a high school suddenly engulfed in gunfire and death found itself looking for clues in the random symbology of a nearly 20-year-old mass shooting that has become, it seems, the standard by which youthful gunmen across America have come to measure themselves.
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Ya, the Columbine shooters got waaaayyy too much publicity.
And just like in Parkland, the gutless weasel cops at Columbine didn’t act in a timely manner, or much at all.
I’m sure there is a website devoted to the lunatics with a cult following.
It's only a mystery for dunce media people and idiot liberals. Wanna stop school shootings? Stop making them famous and manufacturing them into folk heroes. Ever notice that EVERY news story talking about a school shooting goes into a recap of Columbine? The news media created this problem. They want it to be a problem so that they can advocate for gun control. Whenever a school shooting happens, the news media is ecstatic.
Probably orders from above to maximize the body-count.
Adam Lanza wanted to join the ranks of top spree killers like Harris and Klebold. That was his goal in life.
Lanza immersed himself in the world of school spree-killers. He even corrected small factual errors in Wikipedia pages related to the subject.
Thanks for endlessly publicizing every detai of Columbine USeless media!
Keep those copycats coming, so that the 2nd Amendment goes and tyranny comes!
I wonder if it would be so glamorous to all the wanna-bes if all the mass killers face, as their justice, being tortured slowly to death (on national TV) by the parents of the kids they murdered.
Unfortunately the leftard media makes big bucks while glorifying and promoting/encouraging such evil behavior. They, at the same time, endorse schools being ‘gun-free’ shooting galleries which optimizes them as targets to the mentally ill and other gloryseekers.
Automatic death penalty of the ‘kinder gentler’ sort might also dissuade many such perps from even attempting their crime.
Exactly.
The MSM eat this stuff up.
Stop giving these perps publicity.
There's weirdos out there that long for their name in lights and fame, no matter what it takes.
These shooters are godless creeps.
Planning their attacks day in,day out.
Fantasizing about the Mayhem as they
walk from one class to another.
Soulless Psychopaths not thinking
Of anyone but themselves.
The schools Need an Armed Presence
and shooters must be Vilified.
The news media parades these scumbags around at nausium, take them out immediately and shoot them in the head, televise it
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