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"Everyone around me got shot and I begged him for 10 minutes not to shoot me," one young woman, who was not identified, said Tuesday night in an interview broadcast on the Cable News Network. "And he just put the gun in my face and started laughing and saying it was all because people were mean to him last year."

The trench coat mafia is a small band of about a dozen juniors and seniors at Columbine who are easily recognized yet little feared, people who live in the neighborhood near the school said. Regardless of the weather, they favor long black coats and the Gothic look popularized by the rock singer Marilyn Manson, neighbors said. Some even wear white pancake makeup and dark eyeliner, one student said.

"It was that devilish, half-dead, half-alive look," said Bret, a 16-year-old sophomore who spoke on the condition only his first name be used.

The group often gathered in the cafeteria after school. Chris McCaffrey, manager of Angie's Restaurant a few blocks from Columbine, said that residents had known about the group for about five years and that no one considered it a threat.

"Mostly it was just kids who nobody wanted to have anything to do with," McCaffrey said. "They weren't particularly feared. They were just a bunch of punks who kind of hang around the school."

Students said the group was mostly boys, but that some girls appeared to be closely associated with it. One student described the group as "nerds, geeks and dweebs trying to find someplace to fit in."

Bret suggested the group might have targeted athletes out of resentment for their own lack of popularity and success at school.

The students "weren't really accepted as younger kids and as they got older they were accepted by this group," Bret said. "They got their fair share of being picked on. I could understand that they might have targeted some of the more popular kids."

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• EDGEY
• enibmuloc
• industrial
• drum
• bass
• noise
• darkstep
• idm
• electronic
• digital
• hardcore
• columbine

[darksteporg]

@sumonesez Consider this video social commentary. It was written right after the events, and is intended to raise some questions and provoke discussion... What society have we built that created individuals like these? Why do our "social norms" create an environment that ostracizes those that choose to live differently, act differently, behave differently, and the most superfical of all - dress differently?

[darksteporg]

@sumonesez These products of their environment, from those that perpetuated the crime to those that instigated it created the situation at columbine. It's sad that some members of our society feel that death is the only option, and worse when that feeling is acted upon. Perhaps with acceptance and tolerance, rather than ridicule and contempt, we could have avoided this. If we continue to outcast members of our society, especially the emotionally immature, columbine will not be the last time.

[ghpink]

@darksteporg Instinct built over millions of years of evolution. This instinct to survive has turned around in to a capitalistic attack mode of self promotion. When no one cares about you, you care about no one. Society is actually trying to weed this instinct out, it was much more aggressive and raw in our distant past, but today we have more technology to hurt each other. We need to get back to community, self responsibility and care about each other, because we're all stuck on this planet!

[sumonesez]

@darksteporg I agree with your thought on ostracism and how it causes resentment which can be a big part of the cause of certain people losing it and reacting violently, but I also think it's important to acknowledge the relationship between violence as entertainment and the increase in violence in our society. when you show a video of columbine with a hardcore beat and no message of the wrongness of the violence, you're treading over the line between education and fetishism.

[sumonesez]

@darksteporg I appreciate your thoughts on the need to provoke discussion in our society about these issues, but I think that there's a fine line between exposing people to a harsh truth, which is one of the things I like about a lot of the music I listen to, and just putting a beat to people's suffering. I think it's important to realise that the fetishism of violence in our society is a strong contributing factor in these types of violent incidents.

[MDotMosley]

@sumonesez It's gabber based around jungle rhythms. :) I wouldn't really call this breakcore because it's beyond chopped breaks lol.

[sumonesez]

@MDotMosley you're right, I guess it's breakcore (would you agree?), which has some roots in jungle as well as gabber hardcore. I love breakcore when it's not fetishising violence.

[MDotMosley]

@sumonesez This isn't jungle.

[sumonesez]

If you are entertained by watching this video your head is all f*#ked up and you should consider therapy, meditation, and possibly medication. shooting innocent people is cowardly evil and enjoying the spectacle is damaging your psyche. and that isn't what "junglism" is about! I prefer music that's conscious and makes a statement against this kind of sh*t! yes bad sh*t happens, and we need to acknowledge it, but there's a difference between acknowledgement and fetishism.

[zephon13]

nice