When I first turned on the television, to see this shit-storm, my initial reaction was, "I hate this fucking show. All they do is get in people's faces who are crying, asking them 'How do you feel?' and they don't even show the violence. What's so special about that? I can go outside and see that. Plus, it's on for, like, 40 straight days, which is even longer than the Olympics, and they don't even give out any medals or anything.
But, this episode turned out to even worse than all the previous ones. If I hear the fucking question, "Why did this happen?" one more fucking time, I'm going to go fucking stupid! I mean, is a high school diploma some kind of magical device that makes you forget how shitty high school really was? Let's be honest here, shall we? These kids shot a bunch of people up because they were fucked with by asshole, popular, above-the-rules, athlete pricks for years and they fucking lost it.
So, now, even almost two years later (even though half the kids who were there at the time have graduated and moved on), we still hear parents, and reporters, and priests, and politicians, and every dick-head with an opinion and a mouth saying, "How can be prevent this?" It wan't long after the shooting that we started to hear about high schools around the country banning trench-coats! This is how fucking worthless and incompetent educators are. Brilliant idea! Sure, it must be the trench-coats that are causing all this violence. Either that or Marilyn Manson & Korn. Or the InterNet, or how about Hitler? Yeah, Hitler is always a good person to blame fucked-up shit on. And I bet that old rascal Satan is involved in this, somehow. So, maybe if we ban trench-coats we can finally kick Satan's ass off this Earth, and raise our kids in peace.
Naturally, no one in the fucking world is talking about the fact that these two sorry-ass fuck-wads who pulled this sorry, piece of shit excuse for a shooting spree were picked on, beaten up, and harrassed on a daily basis by assholes and everyone in the whole fucking school knew about it. One of the kids that was taken out was a weight-lifter or something who, the previous school-year, beat the shit out of one of these dumb-asses for no apparent reason. Not only that, but according to the kid's father, his ambition in life was to be a record company executive. So, you might say these Trench-Coat Mafiosos killed two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Of course, I would never endorse that kind of violence (unless, of course, it was against christian fundamentalists, fat cops, or hippies, but that's a different page). It is, however, time someone said what is screaming to be said in all this bullshit: We know perfectly well why these kids did it, and so do you; they were sick of being fucked with! They had had enough! They were miserable, unpopular pencil-necked geeks and they wanted to off themselves and take as many asshole jocks with them as they could. And what outsider high school kid in America can honestly say they didn't laugh out-loud when they heard the news that Klebold and Harris ran into the library and said, "All the jocks stand up. We're going to kill you now." What 120 lb. high school reject hasn't had that fantasy, like, ten billion times a day?
Don't get me wrong, these kids were clearly morons. It's not like they would have made any positive contribution to society anyway. Not only were they into Marilyn Manson, but they liked KMFDM as well. They should have been euthanized for that alone. Now, had they actually blown up the school, gone on a sub-division by sub-division killing spree, high-jacked a plane and crashed it into New York City like they were planning to, they would have been the greatest Americans who ever lived. Instead, they are just a couple of lame-ass, shit-for-brains nothings whom no one will miss.
But this doesn't change the fact that fucking jr. frat boys at every school in this country get away with all kinds of fuck-up shit every day and kids like Klebold and Harris are just supposed to take it in stride, like the popular kids are the ones life was made for and everyone else are just dingle-berry hangers-on who deserve whatever the decent folk dish out. Well, guess what? They might not take it in stride. All those pointless beat-downs and swirlies and wedgies might piss them off and they just might come back and kill you for it. There might actually be consequences for your actions that your asshole lawyer father might not be able to buy your way out of. How hard is that to understand?
My message here isn't "Why can't we all just get along?" We are all human, and humans are all pieces of shit. We are never going to "get along." It's not in our nature. We are, after all, animals, and like any animal, we have to occasionally kill something in order to survive. We can, however, weigh our need to abuse the people around us against the possible repercussions that go along with abusing those people. Or else, we can ban organized sports, slaughter all sports-fans, and pay prostitutes to publically blow all the unpopular kids so they won't give a shit if anyone likes them so not.