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HATE-FILLED COLUMBINE DIARIES RELEASED

Hundreds of pages of hate-filled diary entries, maps and documents released Thursday offer a chilling insight into the minds of the Columbine High School killers in the days and months before the 1999 massacre.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/07/06/columbin...s.ap/index.html

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Why do we have gun violence and is there a solution? Not an easy question to answer, no fancy explanation about cultures, counter culture, disarming the public and such can truly answer this question. So the question needs to be broken down to understand its roots. Why is there gun violence? Because guns create the easiest, fastest way to kill or assault someone. It can be used to plan, or be spontaneous in its violence. It can be used in stealth or you can just walk up on someone. Nearly any idiot can kill or harm someone with a gun. Point and pull and most likely, someone is going to get hurt.

The question to ask is not "why is there gun violence" but rather, why has our country become so violent. And in short order you can turn that around and ask "why isn't there more violence?". We are an incredibly violent society and nearly every explanation leads you to ask why we aren't more violent. If its media and movies, then why hasn't our violence gone up extreme levels every single year with nearly every movie being violent and nearly every news broadcast is filled with violence?

If its wars then why haven't we gotten excessively violent with us being in more wars every year? In my life time we have been in combat in nearly ten places from countries in Europe and Africa to the Middle East. While our culture of violence towards other countries is a decent argument, its likely that the amount of times we are going to war is more due to the cultural attitude towards violence and not the cause of that attitude. Rarely does the US actually end up not resorting to violence.

So again, why do we have such a high rate of violent crime? Whether other countries are "catching up to us" is neither relevant and is in many ways sad that we would point to others doing so as something that makes us less at fault for our deeds. But in truth it is a culture of violence that creates more violence. The media only reports whats done that is bad. Movies imitate life and if no one wanted to see violence then it would not put it on screen. The media, movies, and world events are all side effects of a culture that condones violence as a means to solving problems.

Not to argue against other policies, but death and violence are the means to solving many problems to most US citizens. A criminal gets put to death, a rogue nation gets attacked for stepping out of line. The plain simple fact is that we as a culture love violence. We see it as an answer to our problems bypassing diplomacy. Again not to argue, but one of the main forms and to many the only right form of child discipline is spanking. Violence again is an answer to the problems. Violence in our society is seen as an answer, not a problem, to most problems. Is it any wonder why it spreads into the criminal element so easily when it is used lawfully so often?

But we have always considered violence in our society to be a solution and not a problem. If you don't believe so, look at past laws. Laws allowing spousal abuse still remain on law books of most southern states, though no longer enforce. The same goes for laws about abusing slaves. Our history shows that what our culture wasn't given, it took through violence. We slaughter the Indians for land, we took slaves from Africa, we took land from Mexico, all by violence. In the name of violence we wave the banner of our flag in patriotism and take what we want. So the roots of violence go much further than modern day, they have just escalated and looked worse since we have many more people today.

The actual cause of violence today as I see it cannot be discussed here due to its religious nature. But to be sure, even the Bible most espouse our national religion too is also filled with wars and violence to take land and punish people. In short, our religion is reflected on our history then reflected on our present. Todays violence is the sum of our past and historical decisions. This is not an attack on America's culture. Believing that this is not a well thought out opinion on ones own country but an attack on our cultural heritage backs up and supports the idea that violence is everything. Everything cannot be boiled down to an attack or some kind of violence, yet some how, that is what nearly everything comes down to in the US. Even our justice system is bent on relating everything to violence in some way or another. The WAR on drugs, the WAR against terrorism, taking the FIGHT to drunk drivers. Everything has to be related to fighting and violence to get the people to get behind it because that is what we relate to, righteous indignation, moral outrage, make war against evil in all forms. In the end, its all violence whether someone considers it justified or not.

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From the DN! Archives: Michael Moore on Gun Violence in the U.S. and His Documentary "Bowling for Columbine"

Nearly five years ago we interviewed Michael Moore on the day his documentary Bowling For Columbine was released nationwide. At the time the nation was fixated on a series of sniper attacks in Washington D.C, Virginia and Maryland. We talked to Michael Moore on October 18, 2002 -- one week before the snipers were caught.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/18/1711258

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Real story behind Columbine

They weren't goths or loners.

The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver's Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren't in the "Trenchcoat Mafia," disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters. The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn't been bullied - in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and "fags." Ref. Source 9

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Local students plan walkouts to protest gun violence at schools. Students at a number of local campuses plan walkouts Friday to protest gun violence at schools, on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School mass shooting. Source 5a.

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Today slammed for gun segment. THE Today show is defending itself after an interview with a Columbine High School shooting survivor went horribly wrong. Source 9y.