witness describes columbine shooting
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He looks like a bully
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@hankthecowdog115 It was a policy bureaucracy thing. The officers wanted to enter but were told not to until swat arrived. Policy has been changed across the nation in dealing with active shooters since.
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Kevin looks like a bully :D
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I can't believe it's been almost 13 years...
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@SugarMountain15 He didn't seem to mind:
"Mr. Koeniger said he was pleased that Mr. Rather wanted to interview him. ''He was really cool,'' he said. ''He said he was sorry for what happened. He really cared. I wanted to talk. I wanted to tell the story of what happened to people who cared.'' (NYT, 1999-05-22)
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I know a song dedicated to this shooting. It kicks ass.
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They should have targeted the authorities.
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Agreed.
Only after the fact did they make some sort of "tactic" to prevent shit like this. I believe eric and Dylan had a point to prove and they did with great success. I don't agree that it was the best way to do it, but in the end people learned. At that school at least.
If anyone says they are going to fuck shit up at school, we'd better fucking listen. But did we? No, several more happened after columbine.
Rip
Eric Harris
Dylan klebold
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I still partially blame the law enforcement, because as many officers as there were on the scene none of them went in the school. Tell me this how can you just sit and and listen to multiple high school students getting slaughtered? Are you fucking kidding me, a six man swat team there were believed to be eight gunmen at first. They entered on the other side of the school from the shooters. When the finally found the deceased gunmen it was already way to late.
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@astreocclu My initial statement stands.They had no idea what they were dealing with. The quote is from the Sheriff, not the swat. He wasn't equipped or educated to storm a potential hostage-situation. Dylan and Eric had a semi-automatic carbine rifle and a 9mm Tec-DC9 semi-automatic pistol, sawed of shotguns and explosives. Hindsight is always 20/20. But in the chaos right then and there, they had no idea they were "only" dealing with two skinny teenagers who just decided to kill everyone.
"Tell me how this has affected you."
What the hell kind of a question is that?
SugarMountain15 10 months ago 19
The students saved themselves. The authorities did nothing.
hankthecowdog115 5 months ago 9