# Columbine Massacre Questions

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 26, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbine-massacre-questions/252313 "2004-06-26T14:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbine-massacre-questions/252313/1 "2004-06-26T14:21:52Z")

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I know it’s been several years. Sue me. 😉

I’ve read that one of the things that motivated Harris & Klebold was their desire to exact revenge on those who had teased, bullied, persecuted, whatever them. So, among the victims, were there any people who actually _had_ persecuted either of the two?

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbine-massacre-questions/252313/2 "2004-06-26T14:29:25Z")

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The offical report is [url=][http://www.youthandviolence.com/state\_of\_colorado%20Columbine%20Evidence%20Release%20&%20Investigation%20Report.htmhere](http://www.youthandviolence.com/state_of_colorado%20Columbine%20Evidence%20Release%20&%20Investigation%20Report.htmhere), although I’m not reading it for you!

And FWIW, I vaguely recall one of the interviewees in _Bowling for Columbine_ mentioning that yes, they did get a lot of stick. (No doubt a Moore-basher will jump in and say that Moore distorted that interview 😉 )

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**Author:** ![Vic\_Ferrari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@Vic\_Ferrari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vic_Ferrari)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbine-massacre-questions/252313/3 "2004-06-26T15:12:47Z")

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Here’s a good article from Slate:

[http://slate.msn.com/id/2099203](http://slate.msn.com/id/2099203)

That says, in part:

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> The first steps to understanding Columbine, [the FBI says], are to forget the popular narrative about the jocks, Goths, and Trenchcoat Mafia … and to abandon the core idea that Columbine was simply a school shooting. We can’t understand why they did it until we understand what they were doing.

Harris was a clinical psycopath and Klebold deppressed and suicidal. The bullying probably had little (if anything) to do with it. What they really wanted to do was to kill as many people as possible, to top Oklahoma City as the worst mass-murder in the country. But you should read the article for the full story.