Nazis, they were fucking Nazis. Cannot stress this enough, they were indoctrinated into death-cult fascism just like every other major mass shooter in the west. Of course capitalist, neoliberal atomization makes people more susceptible to awful ideology but its no more a cause than ‘bullying’ or some shit. Everyone gets bullied, everyone has a shit time in school, 99.99% of us don’t fucking shoot anyone over it and the common denominator is we aren’t Nazis.

School shootings in general probably have a highly detrimental affect on schoolkids’ mental health, and it seems like all the responses to it were designed in a lab to make it worse. An intersection of this particular societal ill and criminal justice was the placing of police on campuses, who’ve stopped 0 school shootings, but locked up thousands of kids–very cool–and the ghost of columbine was an enormous justification for militarization. The most militarized responses were mysteriously limited to “certain” schools though, I’d actually be shocked if Columbine itself had metal detectors & armed security🤔 I wonder why…