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Contents 1 Section 2 your information 3 Latest Edit 4 Parents 5 The anatomy of a school shooting 6 Seniors/juniors? 7 Homosexuals? 8 VoDKa/KiBBz 9 Something scary 10 Early signs? 11 To user Parapheilion (and the others like him) 12 Splitting the Biographies 13 RfC 14 Category:Bullycides??? 15 VoDKa/VoDkA 16 Legacy Paragraph 17 Controversy surrounding alleged suicides? 18 They were bullied is a myth? 19 One page? 20 "After suicide" picture 21 Splitting in Two 22 Goth 23 Pictures 24 Meeting 25 SOMEBODY JUST DO IT!!! 26 Nazi mention in article 27 Hitler 28 High School Section

[edit] Section

This quote "some still regard the boys as somewhat tragic figures" in the Legacy section is not "Net Neutral."

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Any connection with the book 'Hit Man, a Technical Manual for Independent Contractors by Rex Feral'? If so, maybe should be referenced in the article.

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Finally, they would hijack an airplane and crash it someplace in New York City.

Is someone having a joke? Morwen 07:12, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC) (who didn't remove it because, well, it's possible...)

No, this was written in the boys journal. WhisperToMe 07:46, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

"Additional reports suggest Harris and Klebold considered the prospect of concluding their massacre by hijacking an airliner and crashing it into New York City's Empire State Building."

I would love to see an actual source cited for this. It is... a bit of a leap from taking hostages at a high school. --P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 16:03, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

It was written in their journal entries. It has been widely agreed though, that this was nothing but a fantasy and was never intentionally part of their plan. -- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 21:57, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

   Yes Dylan Klebold was part jewish, but the nazism was mroe of ajoke like saying 'heil hitler'         during bowling class. although eric was a little more serious about it as he admired hitlers master plan, he wanted to take it a bit farther and wipe out everyone besides dylan and himself.

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I remember hearing at some point after the massacre at Columbine that the parents of one of these boys (Dylan?) was Jewish. Is that correct? If so, it provides an interesting twist on the Nazi symbolism & anti-semitic remarks they made. -- llywrch 22:13, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] your information

if your going to write abour Eric and Dylan please get their information right. I only read a small part of it and where Eric lived in Michigan wasnt Ohio, Ohio is a state, he lived in Oscoda.

"The three had lived in Ohio, Michigan, and New York" - That means that he lived in the state of Ohio, the state of Michigan, and the State of New York.

WhisperToMe 03:51, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dylan Klebold's maternal grandfather was a leading Jewish businessman in Ohio from what I understand, but I cannot think of where exactly I read this . . . probably one of the Colorado papers . . . I will see if I can find the source for you. I don't think the Klebolds, however, were practicing Jews. In any case, Eric and Dylan were not neo-nazis.

http://66.45.24.242/columbine_documents.pdf pg96 "I love the nazis too... by the way. I fucking cant get enough of the swastika, the SS, and the iron cross." In short, they agreed with the nazis idealogy or at least on of them did (I'm pretty sure this is Harris' notes, feel free to check) --insertwackynamehere 02:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latest Edit

Was that major edit by an anon a good addition that needs wikifying, or something to revert? Jwrosenzweig 21:35, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

That edit was blatantly POV, and unsourced. In addition, the "good" points it covered, except for the Susan Klebold being Jewish part, were already covered by information in the article. WhisperToMe 23:58, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Parents

Who are the parents? Sue and Tom Klebold or William and Diana Klebold? The article doesn't make it very clear.

Jarwulf 00:45, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It's Sue and Tom.. WhisperToMe 02:54, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Who are William and Diana Klebold then? Googling gets me nothing but this page. Pointless vandalism? Jarwulf 07:26, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, Klebold is a German surname. Kleeboldt is a not so common surname in Northern Germany.

[edit] The anatomy of a school shooting

I'ts acutally quite rediculous to not feel bad for these boys, and to just blame them. Why did they do this? What was the cause for this? Maybe we should look to the people who were murderd. What did they do to deserve to die? Nothing if you ask me, but somehow there must be a consequense for aimlessly picking on these boys.

I found these lyrics. "The anatomy of a school shooting" by Ill bill. I don't like this song... at all. But I think it explains alot.

The anatomy of a school shooting, shotgun under my trenchcoat Columbiners did it, dead spoke - bloodred soaked My mind consume the doom as I walk through the school 15 people killed and over 14 wounded My name is Eric Harris, I was forever harrased, an outcast You fuck with us and now me and Dylan is pulling out gats I've been wantin to murder people Suicide is played out, if you gonna die, take people with you We've been planning this before the kids from Jonesboro did it And I wanted the world to know when people died why we did it I even killed myself but don't feel sorry for me Feel sorry for your seads as we spread the diesease Another bloodbath coming soon to a school near you Smalltown killing-spree that's organized by the youth Fuck the media, them fags be disguising the truth Dragging my name through the mud when televizing the news A bunch of ticking timebombs y'all, is more like me Overflowin with hate, bullied to get raw like me They constantly get picked on and shitted on like me You'd probably get your head blown off by a kid like me I put my mind to it and what I accomplish's frightening The right thing, no matter what you idiots might think Check it, I did that shit so idiots might think This ain't a game, the nerds that you be fuckin with might flip

[Chorus: repeat 2X] It's like this, what's more fun than slice wrist? Kill that teacher that you hate, spray 25 kids You'd be famous just like me if you did what I did This is the anatomy of a school shooting

[Verse 2] I see dead people, it isn't my fault that they were evil Fuck a favorite I hate everybody equal Bitch I warned y'all, didn't I? Now everybody wanna talk shit and cry asking why - Two geeks picked up guns and turned murderous All of y'all under beneath me you don't deserve to live Two nerdy kids is that a crime? why I've gotta be one of the cool kids just to walk by - without being tripped, thrown down on the ground and kicked Insulting me for no reason, I was treated like shit The teachers let it happen I've even seen some of them teachers laughing That's why I had a smile on my face when I started blastin I wasn't crazy - all of y'all were sick I was the nicest person in the world - y'all were dicks Don't even try to analyze me now you have no chance, back then - maybe you could've been my friend

I think it's safe to say, judging from the material linked to this article, that they were batshit insane.

[edit] Seniors/juniors?

I removed the line "There have been conflicting reports on whether the shooters were seniors or juniors.", because it doesn't really mean what it implies. It can't be unknown or even seriously disputed what year they were in (schools keep records on these sort of things, you know...) - it presumably just needs some better research before we state it either way in the article. sjorford →•← 21:57, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

I know this message is old... but they were Seniors, Class of 1999. For sure PRueda29 19:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Homosexuals?

"It has been rumored that the two boys were homosexuals and that their hatred for that group of people came from their own agitation and frustration of being homosexuals themselves. Although this is not confirmed, there is significant evidence that points to this rumor being true. This rumor surfaced not too long after the boys committed the shootings at the school."

OK, if this is a rumor, why is it here? They say that their is 'signifiant evidence' what significant evidence, if it is a rumor? I am confused... could somebody please clarify this.

RyGuiLLiaN 2005-09-12 15:44-0600

Actually this was a joke made by Al Franken on Conan O'Brien's show shortly after the incident. I don't remember the exact line, but he said that people should spread this rumor to prevent copycats.

Surely this kind of information should not be included unless there is some kind of evidence to suggest this. On the contrary, I thought one of them was involved with the girl who helped them get the guns. --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 12:33, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Completely agree. I've removed it. I'm suprised it's been in there for so long. Monkeyman^(talk) 23:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Klebold was supposedly involved with Robyn Anderson, but this was never confirmed by her. Sometime before the shooting Harris met a girl at a mall in Littleton, she was a college sophomore or junior, maybe even senior. He was able to charm her into thinking he was older and was able to continue dating her up until before the shooting. On Prom night, while Klebold attended with Anderson, Harris invited a girl over to his house and they watched movies. They girl stated that she thought they might get involved, but the shooting happen that next Tuesday. Harris was still talking to and seeing the older girl until just a few months before the attack. Just thought I'd mention it here. Studying the massacre, and the shooters for so long now, I doubt they're homosexuals, and I've never read anything that really goes into that in-depth other than just speculation and theory, but if we go by that that, we might as well blame Manson as well. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 00:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Miskin is now in violation of 3RR, he has been on this kick before, adding back in this paragraph after myself and others have removed it. The rest of this discussion page describes the situation pretty clearly.--Paraphelion 04:49, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have a question. How many gay guys do you know that are violent. And if these two idiots were gay, and I mean... liked having sex with people of their own gender... what does that have to do with the fact that they went to school and killed people and what does that have to do with why they did it. Is someone trying to say that these idiots went to school and killed innocent children etc. because they didn't like the fact that they liked to have sex with or were attracted to other guys. How does that make any sense? Of course... nothing they did made sense but if they did go to school and kill people for this reason wouldn't they have stated that in their journals or something. Of course maybe they were hiding it and then comes the question that if they were hiding it how would anyone know?

64.108.206.42No point in being stereotypical, it's somewhat ignorant. And, if you really think about it, it does make sense, although I severely doubt their rationale for the shooting was simply homosexuality, especially if they dated girls. That just wouldn't make sense. Anyways, back to waht I was saying. Being not accepted, ridiculed, and constantly alienated for who you are, a.k.a homsexuality, is a large cause of suicide in teenagers. Who's to say these two wouldn't want to take out some others before their death? No one.

[edit] VoDKa/KiBBz

I read somewhere (can't remember where) that VoDKA was the correct capitalisation, note the DK in the middle (standing for Dylan Klebold). This lends itself to suggest KiBBz was Brooks Brown, but I can't be sure; it would be worth verifying this. In any case, I'm quite sure VoDKa is the correct capitalisation, so I'm changing it - forgive me if it's wrong. P 13:19, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I'm pretty sure the capitalization would be VoDkA - see this copy of one of Eric's websites: http://www.dylanklebold.com/menu/websites/rebdoomerindex.html I never noticed the DK thing before though; that's sort of neat. Nani 20:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

KiBBz is not Brooks Brown. In Eric's documents about his night missions, he states how him, VoDKa, and KiBBz hate Brooks Brown.

They're almost certain that kiBBz was Zach Heckler, a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia [1].

[edit] Something scary

I just noticed that one of them were born exactly 20 years before 9/11 disaster in New York. VM
23:52, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Are you arguing that this should be added to the article? HistoryBA 02:59, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

No, but I was just pointing this out. Encyclopedist (talk) 18:57, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually, according to the crime library article (http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/littleton/blame_5.html), Dylan was born on September 9, not September 11th. I trust Crime Library's research on this one. Can anyone decide one way or the other for sure? I think the reference should be deleted.Melisinde 13:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Dylan was born on September 11th. It can be found in many places on the net, but most notably and verifiably in his Social Security death records. Hexwench 06:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Yesterday I deleted the sentence about him being born on September 11th. This "coincidence" is hardly of great enough magnitude to include in the article. The relationship between these two people who wrote about the possibility of hijacking an airplane and crashing it into the Empire State Building, and hijacked planes hitting the twin towers two years later is not very strong, and the probability that one of the two would be born on that day is not particularly low. Something also tells me that if they had died on that day it would also be an "amazing coincidence". Heck, it would also probably be even more coincidental if one of them was born the same day that an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building in 1930. As we add up all of these probabilities, you can see how such a "coincidence" as is included in the article, is really not at all improbable. If you look hard enough you can find trivial "coincidences" anywhere. I'm deleting it again unless someone can give me a reason why this piece of information is in any way noteworthy or encyclopedic.

[edit] Early signs?

After reading an article on them at Doomworld, I found it pretty scary that there were actually SIGNS that Eric Harris had some serious issues before the attack. Eric Harris played and made maps for Doom, which wasn't what was so scary. His maps and even the readmes for them reflected his issues. A lot of the graphics for the monster deaths had been replaced with the same death sequences but with more blood and gore. He added chunks of brain and flesh getting blown off and even enlarged the pools of blood around them. He also replaced the gib sound with the noise of bones being broken and crushed. The thing that disturbed members of the Doomworld community about one of his maps though was the line he had added into the readme for his mod. "And remember... KILL EM ALLLLLLL!!!" The mod has earned a place in the "Top Ten Infamous Wads" 75.178.21.159 21:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)Craigs I heard his maps were horrible as in boring. I was not impressed when i played them but i did read the readmes.

[edit] To user Parapheilion (and the others like him)

I hope you have a good explanation on why do you keep removing the homosexuality section from the article. Nobody said it was a fact, but it was rumoured and even discussed by experts therefore it has to be mentioned. I'm aware of the existence of certain individuals who show sympathy to the pair and I get the impression that you're one of them. To have such a disturbed judgement is none of my business and I'm not trying to understand it. What you should try to understand however is the seriousness of this matter and the potential seriousness of your own actions. Innocent children have died in the hands of those psychos and all you try to do is hide the possibility of them being homosexual lovers, as if you wanted to protect their "reputation". So be careful of your edits. Your sympathy towards the pair is not only harmful to wikipedia for passing POV in the article, but it is also disrespectful to the victims and their families for the obvious reasons. Miskin 13:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, a wiki sociopath. Hope your little 'battle', of which you speak in other discussion pages, is going well. --Paraphelion 17:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

So I guess I'm being stalked. Anyway this a sample of a source which justifies the actions of the person who wrote that section in the first place. Actually the existence of those assumptions are acknowledged by everybody, and I feel silly to point them out. Of course when dealing with extremists and mentally disturbed people, such silly actions are a necessity: "A gay angle surfaced almost as soon as the shootings hit the news, with rumors circulating that the boys with the bombs and guns were -- variously -- certainly gay, absolutely heterosexual, or self-avowed bisexuals. But almost everyone at Columbine High agreed they had been taunted as queer". [2]

Miskin 20:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

• First, some background: I think I'm a relatively neutral observer on this one: this article is on my watchlist solely because I removed a CSD image from the page. From what I see, neither editor here is attemping to engage in discussion: you're both just reverting to your preferred version, without any attempt to find a compromise. Miskin has provided a source stating that Harris and Klebold were taunted for their alleged sexual preferences. However, everything beyond that (the effects of the taunting on H&K, policy resulting from that) I have seen no sources for. Given what I've seen, I think a reasonable compromise would be to have the article state that H&K were taunted, but not mention the effects (anger, policy, etc) unless a source for these can be provided as well? Cheers --Pak21 02:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Sounds good. I doubt there is going to be an objective source for talking about what people may or may not need to understand in order to affect policy change. I didn't engage in discussion because I have no idea where to begin an offensive sociopath like Miskin. How do you engage in discussion with someone who starts off with a paragraph containing 90% insulting rants?--Paraphelion 04:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I managed to engage in discussion with someone who shows sympathy (and maybe even admiration) for 2 mass-murderers. That definitely beats the "insulting rants". I think what your really problem is, is that I'm right on every single account. Miskin 13:10, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

What you're missing is that this paragraph was NOT compiled by me, it's been there since forever. The only thing I did was to remove silly edits of the type "but they were not homos because they had been both seen with girlfriends" etc. So what I don't understand, is how come Paraphelion decided that this paragraph contained unsourced information only after the fan-club edits were removed. It's obvious that this guy's intention is only to defend H&K, he wouldn't care about the article otherwise. His unjustified sympathy and POV-pushing is disrespectful for the victims, their families and everyone who sees this article more seriously than Doom fans like him. Thus I'll keep reverting to the original version until we take this to RFC. Miskin 13:28, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

• As I see it, both Miskin and Paraphelion are definitely in violation of Civility and No Personal Attacks, and prob--Paraphelion 23:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)ably in violation of 3RR and NPOV as well; if this goes to Arbitration, I'd say you're both looking at getting a ban. You obviously both have strong views on the subject, but the name-calling and edit warring which is going on here doesn't present a positive image of either of you. Can I suggest that we stick a {{disputed}} tag on the section and we try some Dispute Resolution? For reasons I don't quite understand, I'm prepared to act as an informal mediator here, or you can obviously try some more formal proceedings. Cheers --Pak21 13:50, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Pause talking like a cop and try to listen to me for a second. I told you, I'm not the one who compiled this paragraph hence I can't find the exact sources that will support every single phrase of it. I've already found at random something which justifies half of it. As for the rest of it, I really think that it falls under something which is called "common sense". What kind of sources should we need in order to accept that some people assumed that violence in school sources from depression, and H&K's frustration might have fallen under that category? You don't need to be Sigmund Freud to draw these conclusions, let alone question whether anyone else has. There's absolutely no logical reason as to why Parapheilion wants that section revomed all of a sudden, and this is why he's been trying to avoid the conversation from the start, because he has no arguments other than "unsouced, hypothetical, insulting rants blah blah blah". Someone who insists on the verification of such an information so blindly (without providing any reasons), simply has a personal agenda on the subjects. Agendas and POV pushing are very common in wikipedia so generally it's not a crime, but when it comes to an article like this then things are more serious. I'm ready to accept mediation or even request for comment on this. Miskin 15:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Does that mean you are also ready to stop reverting over clean up tags? --Paraphelion 16:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Didn't those two hate homosexuals?--Mimbster 22:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

A lot of the literature suggests so. But that does not strictly rule out that they might have been gay, however all I have seen is people saying it's rumored. A high school rumor about someone being gay is pretty meaningless, as any real indication of someone's sexuality, just an idictation that students at this high school used the standard practice of calling something or someone gay as a generic insult.--Paraphelion 23:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I seriously doubt they were homosexual. Everyone is called "gay" at some point during high school. I wouldn't take high school insults too seriously.--Mimbster 09:47, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Innocent children have died in the hands of those psychos and all you try to do is hide the possibility of them being homosexual lovers, as if you wanted to protect their "reputation". First of all, they weren't psychos. Most likely depressed and enraged but not psycho. They obviously didn't do this simply because they hated people. The constant ridicule and harassment pushed them to the point of shooting their peers. And even if the ones who died didn't harass the two boys, they most likely witnessed it but didn't try to stop it. That makes them guilty, although much less than the bullies. --72.226.224.251 02:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting the Biographies

If you look at the massive amounts of information you can find on each of the men on this article (see 4-20-99's Who Page), and the fact that the Slate atricle classifies them as having completely different mental disorders, it seems fitting that the article be split into one page per person.

No, it doesn't. The two are best known as a pair. After all, Bonnie and Clyde are in the same article! WhisperToMe 01:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

This reminds me of something I was just thinking, isn't it weird how Bonnie and Clyde are almost made into heroes and Eric and Dylan are demonized? They both killed people. Honestly I can't see the difference. If people need to blame this on something they'd be better off blaming America's romantic obsession with murderous outlaws then with Marilyn Manson or Doom. Just a thought. --insertwackynamehere 23:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'll agree with that (I posted this originally.) If any more information is added about the two of them that would make the page ridiculously long, maybe then it should be split. --Freakazette 03:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Not that it matters a damn what I think, but I vote for spliting them as well.

These were 2 very different people with very different lives, motives and reasonings. Just because they are both "famous" for the same act doesn't mean they should be lumped together. There are plenty of groups and pairs of people who are most well-known together and cited as such, yet still have their own individual pages as well. Off the top of my head ... Barnum and Bailey, The West Memphis 3, Sonny and Cher, etc. Dylan and Eric shouldn't be treated differently.

The fact that Bonnie and Clyde have but one page between them should not cause an end to discussion regarding group articles being split. For one, the phrase "Bonnie and Clyde" has become somewhat of a metaphor for the "badass couple", and has fallen into common usage regarding the couple and is therefore appropriate in referencing them (even though they should also have their own articles). It should be noted that there is no "Clyde and Bonnie" article, yet there are no less than 10 different combinations of Eric and Dylan's names as redirects to this page ... doesn't seem to make much sense.

No proper encyclopedia should lump any topics together and leave it at that - if it must group things together, it should also then go into more depth separately. It's like having an article about The Beatles that doesn't lead you to pages for each of them (not that I'm trying to say Dylan and Eric are as big as The Beatles ... but you get my point).

In this case, the boy's individual names should link to their own bios with "See also" links to the other. Their names combined could link to a summary article with "See alsos" to each of them, Columbine High School Massacre, etc.

I personally volunteer to lend my time to this project if a consensus is reached. It's not obvious from this username (which I use for more "controversial" topics), but I have many, many hours of editing logged under my belt. Hexwench 23:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I think they should be split, too. Having them together is just too much information, if one wanted to read about one of the perpetrators, instead of both. Budtard 18:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

These two are notable only as a pair (unlike the Sonny and Cher example, both of whom had significant fame and public roles individually). Neither is particularly noteworthy outside of his association with the other, and anyone seeking information on one would very likely be seeking information on the other. This article is not nearly large enough to merit a split for size reasons, and the amount of overlap of information means that the two articles would largely be duplicates of each other, in two seperate places unnecessarily, leading only to an additional step of navigation. For this reason, I oppose the proposed split. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 23:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfC

This paragraph should be referenced or deleted:

"It has been rumored that the two boys were homosexual and that their hatred for that group of people came from their own agitation and frustration of being homosexual themselves. Other modern theories have emerged regarding the variable of sexual orientation in American high school youth culture as possible variable of antisocial behaviors. One possible theory is that depression caused by social mocking with the use of homosexual labels leads to vengeful anger, obviously present in Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Whether Mr. Harris or Mr. Klebold had homosexual tendencies, the frustrations they felt resulted from the derogatory comments in regard to their speculated homosexuality. The presence of anger on this level has to be explained and understood if policy makers are ever to be able to make educated changes in policy."

I'm wary about any unsourced accusations of homosexuality, particularly when they refer to minors, and pointedly so when an article admits that its statements are rumor. The criminal acts that these two boys perpetrated does not create an exemption from Wikipedia's need to cite sources and provide verifiable information. Durova 20:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I'd say it needs deleting.

Rumor is just that. There have been tons of rumors about these guys.

It's unsourced, and "one possible theory" is a meaningless phrase. There are a million "possible theories." You need some kind of sourcing to explain why this possible theory is worth mentioning over the others, particularly in an article about subjects so rife with rumor.

Also, the phrase "has to be understood" is NPOV. I'd have to imagine that someone out there doesn't agree witht he statement.

Jordoh 17:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I've deleted that paragraph. Durova 06:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Bullycides???

I thought the whole thing of them being bully victims was a myth and that they were pretty popular, etc?

Also, "bullycide" is a retarded word, I don't think it exists

Bullycide is a termed coined in a book, the article has more info on it. As for the myth, they were not "pretty popular" they were bullied but they weren't outcasts, they myth is that they were outcasts who had no friends. they did have friends, but that doesn't mean they weren't bullied. The bullying thing is mentioned a lot in their journals, it's pretty much they reason they did this. They thought it was unfair they were bullied and no one did anything about it, authority turned the other way, etc. At least this is what they say, so they took it upon themselves to "fix" it, by getting revenge. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 18:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Eric got picked on pretty much more often than Dylan who seemed to mostly suffer from his depressions. I guess Eric finally developed a major narcistic personality and therefore couldnt accept people bullying him [danx]

[edit] VoDKa/VoDkA

http://www.acolumbinesite.com/eric/mama.html http://www.acolumbinesite.com/eric/writing/mission3.jpg http://www.acolumbinesite.com/yearbook/vodkasig.gif http://www.dylanklebold.com/menu/websites/rebdoomerindex.html

Revert if you see something wrong. Pogo 03:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legacy Paragraph

Third paragraph in the legacy section makes no sense. Where is the proof that they killed fellow students because of a "compulsatory school environment"? I've never heard this theory before and I don't think it's a theory that is held in very high regard with respect to why they did it. Sounds more like the rant of a user displeased with traditional systems of mass education.

In the days and weeks following the Columbine massacre a scattered number of copycat killings occurred across high schools in the United States and Canada, but none came close to matching the scope of the original.

I am removing this because many school shootings occurred before Columbine and could easily have been the influence. Unless this is cited then I disagree with it being part of the article. -- Sunshine748 28 September 2006 16:44 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy surrounding alleged suicides?

Is there a reason there is no mention in the article of the controversy surrounding the boys' alleged suicides? There has been speculation that Harris shot Klebold before then shooting himself, a theory that has not been disproven due to the sealing of Klebold's autopsy findings by the Colorado courts. -Grammaticus Repairo 06:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Klebold's entire autopsy is available on one of the linked sites from the article. Klebold was left handed and shot with his left hand. (This can been seen by watching the surveillance video, or check the picture on the article page.) Given the entrance wound was on the left side of his head (from the autospy report), its extremely possible he killed himself. I believe the myth came forward due to the misconception that Klebold was right handed.

Klebold is left handed that can be agreed upon, However for anyone who has inspected the pictures of the two boys dead in the library it raises some questions on Dylan's suicide. First if you look at Eric he has the shotgun that he killed himself with under his right leg. This means he was probably crouching when he shot himself, But it does mean he was definatly not sitting as the gun couldn't have fallen underneath him if he was. This observation is important because if you look at Dylan you can see that there is blood streaks on his cheeks. The blood wouldn't have dripped upwards obviously so the position Dylan is in was not the position he was in when he shot himself, rather he had to have been face down. Next if you look at the blood puddle around Dylan's head it is obvious most of the blood can be found on the opposite side of Dylan's body. So it would make sense that Dylan must have died in the position his body is shown in, with the bullet wound in the left side of his head causing most of the blood loss. But there are a few things which intefere with the official story. the first being the noticable amount of blood and some sort of tissue matter on Eric's knee. This could indicate the possibility for Dylan to have been laying face down with his head on Eric's knee when he shot himself which is consistant with the blood streaks on Dylan's face. This means that Eric was dead first, because Eric would have been in a crouch position when he shot himself in order for the shotgun to land underneath his leg and for Dylan to lay his head on Eric's knee. So Eric couldn't ahve killed Dylan, most people have reached that conclusion, But Dylan's suicide gets more mysterious. If Dylan had indeed been laying face down when he shot himself he either a) was not killed instantly by the bullet and managed to partially roll onto his side or b) he didn't kill himself, But rather someone else did. Option a is easy to debunk by simply looking at the picture, because Dylan is holding the Tec DC-9 in his right hand underneath his leg. The bullet hole was in the left side of Dylan's head, so he would have had to have been standing and reaching his right hand across his chest and turning the gun to shot himself in the left side of the head in order to fit the official story. This is highly unlikely as it is very difficult to do such a thing unless he pulled the trigger with his thumb, and even then his right arm would still have to swing back across his body and still manage to land underneath his leg before his leg hit the ground in order to fit what is visible in the pictures of his body. I don't pretend to be an expert on this, But I think it is worth investigating yourself if you have the time because when I look at those pictures and combine my knowledge on the days events and the autopsy reports I just don't see how it is possible that Eric killed Dylan, or that Dylan killed himself. The only two explainations I have is that either a) Dylan was killed by someone else, I won't even begin to speculate who or b) Dylan's body was moved prior to the pictures being taken.

RE:I guess his face was lying on Erics knee and for sum reason his body was turned a bit left.I guess that was made to get a better picture of his face and wound,wether for investigation or whatsoever reasons. Its not like this is the official photo to show everyone how they lay.Its a crime scene shot sumone smuggeled and gave it to the media. [danx] dan@rabbits-mail.com 84.57.64.229 18:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] They were bullied is a myth?

Later investigation showed that it was a myth? I don't think so. The investigation proved that the bullying was the main culprit. The parents of the victims and other people who went to the school claimed it was! So does Harris' website, right? YankeeRoman(24.75.194.50 16:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC))

Thank you for brigning this up, it seems that the person who inititally wrote that portion didn't specify what part of the statement was a myth. While it is agreed upon by most that bullying was the root cause of their anger, the part that the statement meant as a myth was that they were outsiders, outcasts, or loners, when they in fact had close friends and a wider social group. I've changed the statement to reflect this. Thanks again. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 19:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Which investigation claims it was a myth. I'm erasing that part until someone cites which investigation in the subject.

[edit] One page?

Why on earth is this not split into two pages? _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 14:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Possibly because no one will ever think of Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold without thinking of the other... Just a shot in the dark. Pogo 03:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Everything that makes either one of them worthy of a wiki entry directly involves the other. Splitting the article would only result in pointless duplication of information. -Grammaticus Repairo 20:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Although I agree with the above response, I also think that each boy has their own story and they weren't joined at the hip. They were two very different individuals who are forever linked in their one act of infamy. Other team school shooters such as Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson have split articles and some information was repeated, and yet they aren't linked the way Eric and DYlan are. Besides, Eric and Dylan's story is pretty deep in there, so I think separate pages would be adequate for the two stories to look over every important detail of their lives and deaths.USER:NELLGWYNNE 12:12. 14 January 2007

While I agree that it is less usual for Wikipedia to list people together as Eric and Dylan are, I feel the boys are inextricably linked to each other and in this case it is appropriate. Abbott and Costello have a page about the work they did together (in addition to their own articles on their separate lives). Another, perhaps better example is Bonnie and Clyde. -Ich (talk) 20:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "After suicide" picture

Is it really necessary to include the picture of them after they committed suicide? --DearPrudence 22:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

To my surprise, I can't find any official Wikipedia policy against obscene images. Regardless, I think most of us would agree this picture is inappropriate. I took it out. ColinClark 01:23, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --DearPrudence 21:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting in Two

Before the anonymous user who split the article in two comes to me sending me to hell and calling me an idiot for reverting what he or she did, I'd like to advise him or her to please discuss things like splitting or merging articles in article talkpages before doing so. The splitting of this article has been discussed before and it was decided then to keep it merged. If you want to split the article then you can open up the discussion once again right here on this page. Please take this into consideration before and if you decide to come at me for reverting you, as many anons tend to do. If it is decided that it shall be split then I will revert myself and your work will not be lost, however we do like to first discuss large changes such as splits prior to taking any action towards them. Thank You. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 03:27, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I think the two articles should be split; Wikipedia doesn't tend to have merged articles on different people, even if they are linked through a crime. There is certainly enough scope and purpose in separating the articles. Richardbooth 02:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure it does! Bonnie and Clyde -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 03:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goth

Im removing the part that says that the Trenchcoat Mafia are "goth". Not only did they not dress, act or look like the stereotype of "goth", them themselves regect the label of "goth" -Shifty

[edit] Pictures

Surely there are billions of better and clearer images of both Klebold and Harris? Why does the article have to have that grainy one which really, when compared to others, isn't really a very flattering picture of either of them (figuratively speaking) Humorbot5 23:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Those are the only free pictures we can find of them, and we can only use pictures that are free or we have permission to use, if you can find one of those go ahead and add it, but remember to add all the correct tags and sources for the images or it will just be deleted. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 02:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Well I was just thinking that maybe someone might have a book with some better pictures or something...Then they could just scan them in couldn't they? Humorbot5 20:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree. Someone should put up better pictures than those.--Mimbster 02:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I also agree, but it's still the same problem, unless you can find pictures that are in the public domain, are free, or you get permission from the person who owns the pictures to use them you're not going to be able to use them, they will be deleted under our guidelines used to prevent people from suing us from using their work without permission, so scanning a book and posting it won't work unless the picture you've scanned has permission. You can always go around and find free images somewhere, or ask the owners of the images for use, but for now all we can use is these pics because they were released into the public domain for use by news outlets and other sources such as Wikipedia. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 03:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meeting

I don't quite understand, who was the mastermind out of the two and how did they meet? Was one of them manipulated by the other or what? I just don't get how they became friends and decided to go on a kill crazy rampage. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.67.65.166 (talk) 07:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

Dylan and Eric met by chance, like most kids do, just by living in the same town. No one masterminded it, it was formulated over a long time by both of them. Their plan to do what they did began to grow after the two became friends and eventually bloomed into the thirteen deaths we know today. It was a mutual misanthropic rage. Sometimes, really really bad things happen by complete and pure luck. See here for another example. VolatileChemical 04:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SOMEBODY JUST DO IT!!!

If anybody wants i will happily write an article on dylan klebold. Raineyjunkie22 20:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

end of storyRaineyjunkie22 20:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

o and this is my first time posting if i did it wrong

Before asking about this further, please see Bonnie and Clyde - Notice anything interesting about the article? :) WhisperToMe 21:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi all, on the nl:wikipedia (and maybe more) there are separate articles on Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. There is an interwiki link from this article to the nl: article on Klebold. Any suggestions on how to solve that, since on en: the two are in one article? Is it allowed to have 2 interwiki's in one article? Thanks for any advice. Mork nl 11:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The two will always be mentioned in the same breath. Keep it the way it is. 151.202.74.135 14:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually I was only asking for advice, and would not dare to interfere in this discussion. It is now solved at the nl:wikipedia by integrating both bio's into the main article nl:Moorden op de Columbine High School (Murders at Columbine High School]], and having nl:Dylan Klebold and nl:Eric Harris redirect to this article. Maybe not the most elegant situation, but having separate bio's caused too much trouble.. Thanks for your advice. Mork nl 16:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nazi mention in article

People who knew the perpetrators have stated that they were not obsessed with Nazism nor did they worship or admire Adolf Hitler, as has been speculated in the media. A journal of Eric Harris, released in July 2006, did however confirm a strong admiration of Nazism, Social Darwinism and genocide.

Should it be noted that, while Eric did support the Nazis for killing Jews, black people and gay people because they were, respectively, Jewish, black and gay, he didn't support the Nazis for killing Roma, Jehova's Witnesses and Polish people because they were Roma, Jehova's Witnesses and Polish, but instead because they were human? He had a Jew/black/gay prejudice, but he had no Roma/Jehova's Witnesses/Polish prejudice. He wanted the last three groups because they were human, not because of that other stuff. Also:

Nazism would be fucking great if it werent for individualism and our natural instinct to ask questions.

– Eric's journal

Should it be noted that he disagreed with the Nazis on the subject of collectivism versus individualism, Eric supporting the latter? Anyone can tell he loved Nazis, but this is, you know, kind of something he really disagreed with them on. I think that should be noted as well. VolatileChemical 05:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hitler

Okay, this struck me as a bit interesting . . . the boys commited the High School Massacre on HITLER'S BIRTHDAY. Do you think that has anything to do with it? The System 3000 02:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] High School Section

"According to early accounts of the shooting, Harris and Klebold were unpopular outsiders and frequent targets of bullying at their high school. Later an investigation showed, however, that the notion they were unpopular and outsiders was largely a myth, although the idea had become ingrained in popular accounts.

"Regardless, they and their group of friends and/or people they knew had often been the target of bullying at Columbine, a fact that has been agreed upon by most investigators to have been the root of their anger. They were also said to have been part of a group who called themselves the Trenchcoat Mafia, although they had no particular connection with the group, and did not appear in a group photo of the Trenchcoat Mafia in the 1998 Columbine yearbook [6]."

My comment: This is terminally contradictory. Were Harris and Klebold the victims of bullying? Were they members of a group called "The Trenchcoat Mafia"? Acceptable answers are "Yes," "No," "We Don't Know," and in a pinch "Sources Differ". It's really not OK to answer as the article currently does: "No, but Yes" and "Yes, but No". Patzer42 17:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)