Chilling link to horror in USA.THE song Auvinen chose as a soundtrack for his YouTube video predicting the massacre was also a favourite of Columbine school killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. The lyrics for Stray Bullet, by German industrial rock band KMFDM KMFDM Kein Mitleid für Die Mehrheit (German band, translates loosely to no pity for the majority) , include the lines: "I'm your nightmare come true" and "I have come to rock your world". Harris posted the lyrics to Stray Bullet and several other KMFDM songs on his website. The band's name means "No Pity for the Majority". Harris and Klebold murdered 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. near Denver, Colorado, on April 20 1999. The killers then committed suicide. Like Auvinen, the Columbine killers were Nazi sympathisers. One of Auvinen's YouTube postings spoke of his admiration for Harris and Klebold. He wrote: "Tribute to Red & vodka Columbine killers. Rest in peace..." After the horror at Columbine, KMFDM released a statement condemning the shootings and stressing the band's opposition to fascism. Earlier this year, the gunman behind the Virginia Tech Massacre The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting comprising two separate attacks about two hours apart on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. also used video footage in a bid to justify his actions. Deranged de·range tr.v. de·ranged, de·rang·ing, de·rang·es 1. To disturb the order or arrangement of. 2. To upset the normal condition or functioning of. 3. To disturb mentally; make insane. student Cho Seung-Hui, who shot dead 32 people before turning his gun on himself, interrupted his rampage to send 27 video clips and an 1800-word "manifesto" to US TV network NBC. In one video, Cho raved: "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today but you decided to spill my blood." CAPTION(S): NIGHTMARE: Columbine High School in 1999 |
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