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Hammer attack at Columbine

Published on February 17, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Hammer did hurt 'em.

If you follow any of my social media profiles you may have caught me saying that I wasn’t going to post about the hammer attack at Columbine High School. Yes, that Columbine. The reason that I was going to abstain is because of course the media made a big deal about this because of Columbine’s previous history. Then I read the following headline.

Mom Claims Teen in Columbine Hammer Attack Was Bullied:

Before I get ahead of myself here’s the details. A 14-year-old female freshman is accused of attacking two other students with a hammer. She allegedly struck a 15-year-old female on the hand. The female was said to be the target of the attack. The suspect is also accused of allegedly striking a 16-year-old male student on the hands and ribs when he came to the aid of the first victim.

If this had happened at any other school it wouldn’t have even made a dent in the national news but I digress.

Then the mother of the suspect came out and said that her daughter was bullied…

The girl’s mother said bullying recently had her daughter looking at herself in the mirror and crying. The girl recently asked her, “Mom, do you think I’m ugly,” she told the station.

“I’m upset about the fact that they claim that there’s a no tolerance bully policy, when that’s a big Littleton lie,”

However the devil is in the details.

First it’s not uncommon for teenage girls to be insecure and emotional about their appearance. I hate to sound harsh but that’s reality. Secondly the girl was said to have transferred into Columbine from another school. Were there discipline issues at the previous school? That’s a contributing factor in a lot of school transfers. Next, police say there was no evidence of bullying against the suspect. And lastly the suspect may have been the bully herself…

The 16-year-old student, told KDVR that prior to the attack the accused teenager threatened to beat him and his friend with a bat.

And again I’m not saying bullying doesn’t exist in our schools. Nobody knows that better than me. I have the x-rays of broken bones, dislocated joints and concussions to prove it. However bullying has been used as an excuse like this in cases so many times that it’s basically become the boy who cried wolf. Also as I’ve said before anytime one of these school attackers claims that they were bullied it does nothing to help the victims of bullying as schools come more concerned about identifying the next attacker. Not to mention the fact that the proper response to bullying is not a premeditated assault with a hammer.

Should there be a Columbine miniseries? Trench says yes

Published on February 13, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 3 Comments Tags: , .

‘Columbine’ author in talks to produce Lifetime mini-series:

In the interest of transparency I have been a fan of Dave Cullen since 2004 when his article The Depressive and The Psychopath was first published. I was fortunate enough to be able to exchange e-mails with Dave after meeting online through a mutual blogging friend of ours. I was fortunate enough to receive a review copy of his book ‘Columbine’. We even follow each other on Facebook and Twitter. What we are not is best buds. I have no private insight into Dave’s inner workings. I know about as much as Dave as he publicly makes known. O also want to add that I have not contacted Dave prior to writing this post. This one is all me.

Anyway having said that Dave recently announced that he is talks to have his book made into a miniseries on the Lifetime Network. It is far from definite and there’s a possibility it may not come to pass.

However there has been a movement, mostly by people who either were at Columbine or lived in the area at the time, for this miniseries not to be made. I respect their opinion. I couldn’t possibly understand what it must have been like to live through something like that and hopefully I never will. But please allow me to explain my opinion of why I think that the miniseries should be made.

As anyone who has read this site for a time knows there were a lot of myths surrounding the shooting at Columbine such as the shooters were bullied, it had to do with jocks, or gothic culture, or the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia. In my opinion Dave’s work on the matter has gone a long way into dispelling those myths. Unfortunately a lot of people still cling to those myths even 13 years later. If the miniseries were to air on the Lifetime Network it would be striking into the heart of the demographic that still believe in those myths. And to be honest with you that’s only if it does done right. I would hope that Lifetime wouldn’t distort things to try to fit some alternative agenda.

However if you agree that the miniseries should not be made you can sign the online petition here.

Are school shootings connected to Al-Qaeda?

Published on August 13, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

In a word…no. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

School Shootings Have Direct Link to Al-Qaeda, Says Award Winning Writer Linda Rohrbough:

Linda Rohrbough is the aunt of Columbine victim Brian Rohrbough. She says that while doing research into school shootings like Columbine that she has discovered a link to shootings like Columbine to terrorist group Al-Qaeda.

“My first inkling of the connection to Al-Qaeda was when I attended the Columbine memorial service. I recognized General Colin Powell at the center of the platform, in full military dress. He was never mentioned or introduced, and he never spoke. He was just there.”

Further reports unveiled the Columbine shooters bragged theirs would be the first of many shootings. Also, the teenage shooters low-level formatted the hard disk drives of their computers before heading out to kill. Rohrbough wanted to know, “How could they know other shootings would follow? And why erase their hard disk drives? What were they trying to hide?”

Fortunately, in two cases, the authorities got to computers before the low-level format was complete. First, in a school shooting in Paris, and second, when a teenager in Florida flew his dad’s plane into a building. In both cases, e-mails traced back to Al-Qaeda operatives.

First off General Powell was there probably there as a representative of President Clinton and probably didn’t want to be announced in order not to take the attention away from the victims.

Second she takes two isolated incidents that have no connection to Columbine, one of which wasn’t even a school shooting, that may have some connection to Al-Qaeda and she claims this as proof? If this was anymore of a stretch she might have pulled a hamstring.

Lastly how did the Columbine cowards know that there would be other shootings to follow? That’s simple. They knew that because they weren’t the first. While at the time the Columbine shooting was the most prolific in terms of lives lost they were not the first. They were emulating shootings that already took place at Jonesboro and Paducah.

Were there any connections to Al-Qaeda at Red Lake, Virginia Tech or NIU? No.

So why would Ms. Rohrbough becoming out with these allegations now? She had a book of fiction that came out on April 20th, 2011. That was the 12th anniversary of Columbine. Not only does this press release make it sound that book sales may be slipping but the fact that what the release date was smacks of opportunism and bad taste.

Mutant Murderabilia as stolen ’99 Columbine yearbook goes up for auction

Published on July 21, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Columbine High School Yearbook Fetching $500 in Auction:

Columbine High School Yearbook from 1999 Auctioning for More Than $700:

‘Rare’ 1999 Columbine yearbook fetching hundreds at auction:

Gawker first broke the story that a 1999 Columbine High yearbook, called Rebelations, was put up for auction on the internet. Before the item was pulled from the website it was fetching bids as large as $700.

The description of the book featured a picture of the book, as I’ve included, but also pictures of the cowardly scumbags Harris and Klebold. Also the description referd to the book as an important piece of history and not the murderabilia for which I actually consider it.

A lot of people have been asking who would buy something like this? Unfortunately I’m way too familiar with the answer. In the past I’ve referred to them as mutants. They are troglodytes who either sympathize or worship the Columbine killers. I have seen more than one request from them looking for a ’99 Columbine yearbook. Some of them try to collect anything related to Columbine from the ’98-’99 school year since that was when the tragedy happened. A ’99 yearbook is the unholy grail for them. Some of them have even claimed to have moved to the Littleton area to be close to their ‘Mecca’.

As it turns out the auction has been pulled as a friend of the original owner of the book told Gawker that the book had been stolen from its owner. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a mutant that stole the book and put it up for auction in the first place.

The Last Columbine Mystery

Published on March 1, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

The Daily Beast

Another post by Dave Cullen. This time on a meeting between the parents of Eric Harris and one of his victims, Daniel Mauser.

Very interesting read however it does not change my opinion that the Harrises bear a major responsibility for what happened.

Klebold’s mom doesn’t know what she knows

Published on October 21, 2009 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Klebold may not know what she knows:

This is an article from journalist and author Jeff Kass. He covered Columbine at the time it happened and write the book Columbine: A True Crime Story. This article is his reaction to Susan Klebold’s essay for O Magazine.

Let me share a couple of quotes with you…

But one Klebold writing I have yet to fathom occurred over one year before Columbine when Eric and Dylan were busted for breaking into a van and sent to a juvenile diversion program. Their parents were required to fill out a questionnaire, and it is unclear which parent actually wrote the answers, but the writing for Dylan’s parents appears feminine. When asked about their son the Klebolds wrote: “Dylan is introverted and has grown up isolated from those who are different in age, culture or other factors. He is often angry or sullen, and behaviors seem disrespectful to others. He seems intolerant of those in authority and intolerant of others.” The parent then crossed out the phrase, “He seems intolerant of those in authority.”

On the day of Columbine police swarmed the Klebold and Harris houses. Among them was Lakewood officer Rollie Inskeep, who spoke with the Klebolds. “When asked about guns or explosives, she (Susan Klebold) stated that Dylan has always been fascinated by explosives and guns,” Inskeep wrote in his report. “She stated that Dylan wore combat-looking boots and that he liked the look that he had established.” Then, a familiar twist. “She then recanted her previous statement,” Inskeep added, “and stated that Dylan did not really talk about explosives and guns but he just likes to have the look of the trench coat and boots.”

And what did the Klebolds do about his ordinance fixation or his anger or his intolerance? Obviously nothing. Instead they just keep making excuses for their mass murderer of a son and themselves.

Like I’ve been saying for the past 10 years, Columbine was probably the most preventable tragedy in the history of this country and all it would have taken to prevent it was actual parents and not self involved people with a ‘not my kid’ complex.

Klebold’s mom had no inkling

Published on October 11, 2009 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Columbine killer’s mom says in essay for Oprah magazine she had ‘no inkling’ son was suicidal:

Susan Klebold, the mother of Columbine cowardly scumbag Dylan Klebold, has written an essay for Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine about her experiences since that fateful day in 1999. I’m sure that a lot of people, especially those in the Oprah crowd, are going to say how brave she is coming forward and crap like that. I still say she’s clueless and doesn’t get it.

In her unpaid essay for O she goes on about how she had no inkling that her son was planning on killing himself.

Dylan’s participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death. Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide. From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and suicidal. When I first saw copied pages of these writings, they broke my heart. I’d had no inkling of the battle Dylan was waging in his mind.

Like I’ve said before she sees Columbine more as her son’s suicide then she does the fact that he took place in the mass murder of 13 people. I don’t care that her selfish bastard of a son was depressed. I care more about the fact that she did absolutely nothing to prevent the massacre from happening.

If the Harrises and Klebolds actually did their jobs as parents not only their sons but their 13 victims would be alive today. Instead they were too self absorbed in their own little lives and blaming everyone else for their kids’ issues then being actual parents. And if Columbine never happened we probably wouldn’t have had other tragedies like Red Lake and Virginia Tech.

In my opinion the blood of every victim from every school shooting that has happened since Columbine is on your hands.

Dave Cullen’s Columbine

Published on May 26, 2009 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 0 Comments Tags: , .

If you haven’t yet read the book Columbine by author and Journalist Dave Cullen you’re really missing out. I haven’t read it yet myself but I’ve read enough reviews of it to now that Dave did a great job of dispelling the myths that have permeated Columbine for the past 10 years.

I’ve been a fan of Dave’s ever since he wrote what I believe to be the definitive article ob Columbine, The Depressive and the Psychopath.

Dave Cullen’s website has all the details you need on the book.

Or maybe one family will appeal

Published on July 5, 2006 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 0 Comments

Klebold’s parents forgo challenge:

I guess we’re going to have another lesson in journalism. Previously it was reported that neither parents of the Columbine killers would appeal the Columbine evidence being released. Now the Rocky Mountain News is saying that for right now only the Klebolds are not appealing…

The parents of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold have decided not to challenge the release of more than 900 pages of documents taken from their home and that of fellow killer Eric Harris, their attorney said this morning.

Gary Lozow said that Tom and Sue Klebold hope that their decision will help bring an end to the litigation that has surrounded Columbine since the two seniors opened fire on April 20, 1999, killing a dozen students and a teacher and wounding more than 20 others.

“I think one of the kinds of thoughts that was important was simply to put an end to all of the litigation,” Lozow said. “Hopefully that will be part of what happens here — we’ll have to see.”

The documents are expected to be released Thursday, the Jefferson County sheriff said.

The Harris family has not yet filed any challenge to Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink’s decision to release the documents.

Today is the deadline.

As of what time today remains unknown.

The Journals MIGHT be released

Published on June 20, 2006 by Trench Reynolds in Columbine. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

Sheriff plans to release Columbine killers’ diaries, not tapes:

LITTLETON – The Jefferson County sheriff said Monday he plans to make the Columbine High School killers’ journals public, but will not release their video and audio tapes.

The teens’ journals include expressions of anger and dissatisfaction, the filing said. It said portions with bomb-making instructions would be withheld.

Other documents planned for release include messages Klebold and Harris wrote each other in yearbooks and Wayne Harris’ journal, the filing said. But it said the bulk of the documents were “largely irrelevant and innocuous, consisting mostly of school work.”

Wayne Harris’ journal is the one I’m most interested in seeing. I’m curious to know just how much he did or didn’t know what was going on under his roof. Especially considering that while the shootings were going on Wayne Harris had called 911 stating that he thought one of the shooters might have been his son.

Realistically though I’m sure the appeal is being worked on as we speak.

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