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kleinbl00  ·  3285 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How often do mass shootings occur (in the US)? On average, *once a day*.

Your broader point on correlation, yes. I read Columbine. Yes, they had grandiose ideas. They also had a shitload of guns.

Tim McVeigh had none.

Kleibold and Harris, like every school crazy before and like every school crazy after, wanted to go down in a blaze of glory with their fingers on the trigger. They singled people out. They were very much down with individual killing.

Tim McVeigh blew up a building full of people because of what it represented and because that's what he was supposed to do.

Tim McVeigh tested his explosives. Klebold & Harris?