She was just an afterthought because he was desperate for a date by then. Any reasonably attractive enough girl would have done at that point.  He was hot for Brandi and had been working on her trying to establish a returned interest on her part.  So, he was afraid of the rejection if he’d asked her himself and she turned him down personally but also his reaction to it would be a wildcard.  Having someone else ask for him was like a buffer but it stung all the same since he watched her decline from a distance which was a bit humiliating. He took it very personally and the hurt turned into cold anger.

Absolutely. I realize not everyone can read in Dylan font ® . haha  If you go to the main page of my blog in your browser, it’s listed as Existences [translated]. 

They did like to play paintball but I’m not so sure they did so at Rampart Range. I get the feeling the first time they’d ever been there is with Mark Manes and Phil Duran.  The boys liked to go up in the mountains, drink, and party and they probably played a bit of random paintball there (that is, if a friend owned and brought the PB guns along) as well as at the many actual paintball places available in the local area such as those which existed in the late nineties: Blitz Paintball, Paintball Adventurers, American Paintball Coliseum in downtown Denver and a possible splurge of traveling down to Colorado Springs for Dragonmans which was also a gun shooting range.

And I’m sure they did use paintball playing as their sort of ‘code alibi’ for not so close friends.  Eric probably used this excuse for his parents when he went a handful of times for target practice at RR – that is, if his parents even asked where he was going on the weekend…  Dylan’s excuse for his mom was that “he and some friends were going to the mountains to do an assignment for his video production class.”

No, it’s not. 🙂

I addressed this before here.  As for Eric, first of all, he and Brooks made up the second semester of Senior year so I think we could say that his strong desire to kill Brooks wasn’t a top priority anymore.  But regardless of whether Brooks and Eric came across one another on campus before NBK or even if there was a verbal exchange like the one Brooks maintains: Eric would not have killed him right then and there in the parking lot for the simple fact that he had a much larger agenda to conduct and it wasn’t planned to start until after 11 am during A lunch.  If he took the personal liberty to start shooting any student/s before planned, it would’ve attracted attention and ruined his carefully constructed plans.  If we can believe what Brooks claims Eric said, it would make a bit of sense seeing how Brooks was badgering and berating him for not showing up for his final Chinese philosophy test.  Eric’s response demonstrates mild but slightly amused irritation “I like you now” but keeping his eye firmly on the prize on his mission  “it doesn’t matter anymore. get out of here, go home.”  Dude had bigger fish to fry and his past arguments with Brooks now seemed petty and insignificant compared to what he had in store for the world. 

Well, you certainly have asked this question multiple times now haven’t you? 😉

No, I don’t think so.  In general, Dylan could book it pretty fast and he was rather bouncy too when in a casual, comfortable setting. Obviously, in certain situations at school, he’d have to slow his pace while in the confines of a classroom or in the hallway among a massive crowd of students milling about on the way to their classes and walking with Robyn to class. The dude had some long ass legs and so his gait was wide by nature and in just taking one step it was like 2- 3 for an average height person.  At school, Dylan probably was feeling uncomfortably skittish and on guard a fair amount of the time internally, so I tend to think he’d pump up his physical height and presence to overcompensate and make himself appear more intimidating and confident by way of his trenchcoat and also the stride of his pace while walking alone or with the dude friends. It gave off that vibe of ‘don’t reckon with me’.  As Marjorie Lindholm described of him here (probably walking by himself in the hallway) he walked near the wall away from others in an avoiding sort of manner.

Because he didn’t?  However, Eric owned an album by the band ‘Fly’ entitled Bombthreat Before She Blows’.   Flyleaf wrote the song for the victim “Cassie” (Bernall) after Columbine.

No, I wouldn’t say that because misogynistic tends to imply reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.  It’s more like Kathy grew up with those 1950s old-school, conservative values and in a culture that is founded on a hierarchical structure that the woman is important yet in a subordinate role alongside her man, boyfriend, husband. This doesn’t at all necessarily mean that women are hated or mistreated only that she defers to the man to shoulder responsibilities. (Though some men are just misogynistic on top of all of that.)  Kathy clearly knows her place and stands by her husband, a strong military man, as his wife. The man of the household has a defined role as the main provider – but she has also provided too working for a catering company. He takes care of his family and is captain of his household and the wife’s primary role of importance is being the homemaker and taking care of her children and her husband. She supports him by standing by him and being in support of his wishes. This is why Kathy would never choose to speak up about Eric on her own as Sue has chosen to do regardless of her husband’s opposing wishes. Kathy is not her own person, she is Wayne’s wife first and foremost regardless of her own personal wishes. She puts the Harris family first. To women today, this may seem very misogynistic by today’s standards. However, this is how the culture was for most men and women for many decades from 1950s prior.  The 1960s began to create more of a change for women.  Obviously, Sue and Tom grew up in a more liberal, open-minded area that embraced women as important in their own right and not in strong identification with men.   

*blinks* I would ask what the deal is with that too. 

In this July 22, 2002 CBS (Christian Broadcasting Network 700 Club) article, the interviewer seems to suggest it in their question to Craig, but in response, Craig interestingly doesn’t properly address it nor elaborate on this specifically.  He just gives a general answer and mentions the Thirteen Tears drawing she created before the shooting. 

GORDON ROBERTSON: One of the bullets actually went through a journal she had. There is a bullet hole in it. She had that journal with her. In the journal was a prayer for one of the boys who killed her. What was she praying for?

CRAIG SCOTT: Rachel had a mission in Columbine, and that was to reach out to the unreached. She had that journal as well as another journal in her backpack, which included a powerful drawing that she drew. I believe it was also prophetic.

Looks like this was added to Rachel’s Wikipedia page (footnote referencing the article above (20)) without any additional information or the actual prayer written by her: 

“On one occasion, this included writing a prayer for one of the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre.”

Another Wikipedia Footnote (21) references  The Journals of Rachel Scott: A Journey of Faith at Columbine High p. 27.  I looked at the page of that book (which I own) and it just talks about Rachel’s open style of praying to God. No mentioning of any prayer specifically to either “boy who killed her”.

 I do not recall the Scotts having volunteered any information that Rachel wrote a prayer meant for either Dylan or Eric before she became their victim.   You would think that would be a pretty profound selection of her writings to showcase to the public too if she’d done so. I’m going to include @racheljoyscott in on this and see if she can help shed some light. Maybe I’m still waking up here this morning lol but I’m coming up short on this one. But I do think I surely would’ve remembered something like this because, well, I would’ve made a post on it!  😉