{"id":2577,"date":"2011-08-25T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2011-08-25T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:07:21","slug":"mfdj082511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 25, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Resentful Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

At midday on April 20, 1999, students at the Columbine High School at Littleton, near Denver, Colorado, heard sounds like the explosion of firecrackers. But many recognized them for what they were – gunshots. In the library, which was full of students, two black clad youths walked in and began shooting, using automatic weapons. Sutdents dived under tables, but many were shot – one girl nine times. Strangely enough, the gunmen did not look grim – they were laughing as they fired and reloaded their weapons, or tossed home-made bombs. (Both also had bombs strapped to them.) One student, a girl named Janine, recognized them as two teenage students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. And as one of them pointed his gun at her, she begged for her life. He seemed to be in no hurry, for he listened to her pleas, and told her that he was killing people “because people had been mean to me last year”. And he ended by sparing her life. When the massacre was over, half an hour later, fifteen students lay dead, and forty were injured. The dead included the two killers, who had turned their guns on themselves.<\/p>\n

Harris and Klebold belonged to a group of ten or so students who called themselves “the Trenchcoat Mafia,” and who (so its members claimed) were shunned by the rest of the student body – hence their resentment. Why two students from comfortable middle class backgrounds should decide to embark on mass murder was hard to determine. But an analysis in Time magazine pointed out that many students of the same generation spent their spare time playing video games which involved shooting large members of “the enemy” at top speed, and that as a consequence, they were deadly shots.<\/p>\n

Culled from: The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder<\/a> by Colin Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Resentful Yet Truly Morbid Fact! At midday on April 20, 1999, students at the Columbine High School at Littleton, near Denver, Colorado, heard sounds like the explosion of firecrackers. But many recognized them for what they were – gunshots. In the library, which was full of students, two black clad youths walked in and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}