Rest in Peace

10 years ago,Monday April 20th 1999

Two gunmen shot up Columbine High School in Colorado.

12 students and 1 teacher died.

The shooters committed suicide about an hour later.


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Here's the thing.

I grew up with guns and a love of the military(grandfather was a WWII vet,father was in ROTC,uncle was in the Army,cousin was in the Navy) and I've played more than my fair share of violent/bloody video games..but despite that..I've never thought of shooting up a school or a public place.
After reading the wikipedia article on Columbine Shooting..I arrive at a couple of conclusions..

1.Why didn't the cops go in the building sooner? Same with the SWAT team.
As I recall..they showed on TV..SWAT cops standing around while the shooting was going on..Apparently they didn't want to save lives?? I mean isn't that WHY they wear the heavier body armor,have the assault rifles and shotguns that the patrol officers don't? Not to mention the expensive training?

I'm an ordinary citizen (don't even have a pistol..only a few rifles and those are WW2 era) and I would have ran in to try and save lives..

I just don't get the mentality of the shooters and the responders..

not doing much

went to town..ac adapter still has not arrived for my mom's e-machines laptop.

I still have to buy a motherboard for the Toshiba that my sister gave me..that probably will happen later.

Been working on completing 1000/1000 on various video games..currently the only xbox game that I have over 1000 is GRAW2.

Other games that I have to complete 100%
GRAW1
Gears of War 2 Co-Op and Hard Difficulty
Original Gears of War Hard Difficulty
Call of Duty World At War
Forza Motorsport 2
Medal of Honor:Airborne hard difficulty
Halo 3 Legendary difficulty and some missing skulls and maybe some online achievements (multiplayer adversarial)
Rainbow Six Vegas terrorist hunt

Getting some more LEDS..

Anywho..not much else going on.