re: #34 Gus 802

Yeah, that was the propane bombs that didn’t go off.

The psycho-social dynamics that preceded and followed that shooting was rather strange. A few of the victims parents passed away. There was a great deal of family conflicts before that day.

One has to ask if we want to accept a world of zero tolerance. Do we become a police state in order to prevent these tragedies from happening? Is that money better spent on prevention?

We can’t prevent work place shootings or a Columbine scenario. We can’t. Easy to get guns, and sociopathy is everywhere. Even if we put more strictures on legal gun ownership, that couldn’t stop it.

I don’t know much about the Columbine dynamics you’re mentioning. I do know this excellent piece from Salon in 99 that talks about the work the FBI did after.
Inside the Columbine High investigation

Everything you know about the Littleton killings is wrong. But the truth may be scarier than the myths.

The short version is that Eric Harris was a sociopath— and we’re lucky he killed so few and died when he did.