re: 17 Years Ago the Columbine Massacre happened

I live in Littleton and teach at a school roughly 25 minutes away. I had to scout an opponent of Columbine earlier this basketball season and it was a very odd experience walking through the school to the gym.

I have read almost everything about the shootings and a bunch of people in this thread have nailed it. There isn't one single thing that lead to the shootings, but, I would tend to say that this was just a perfect storm of two kids who had an inner struggle to kill and it filtered out over a year or more into real action. I would also say that they self justified their actions into their journals to give themselves more courage and motivation to carry out their plan. Meaning, sure they were likely bullied to a degree by "white hats" or jocks at the school, but they became hypersensitive to every negative interaction they had and fueled that to justify a feeling that they already had. If you read their journals and watch some of the home tapes, they were just as guilty of treating others poorly as they claim caused their hatred of others. It was definitely NOT a case of they had had enough and took action because of how they were treated.