No, because they recorded with 90s videotaping camcorders and tape media which were a poorer grade than the high def stuff technology we have today. You could filter sharpen it to an extent but it wouldn’t be all that much of an improvement.  And honestly, if it could’ve been done, it would’ve nearly 20 years on. 

I think it is ultimately an extreme selfish act which is motivated by desperation to stop your inner pain and suffering.  To have silence and peace, free from your tormented thoughts.  Those who decide and choose to kill themselves are solely making the decision to pull the plug on their life and for their own personal reasons. It is done in exclusion to fully considering what family, friends, co-workers and others may think and feel about you yanking your presence from them permanently when they are used to you being in their lives and they love and care about you. If the person chooses to still end their life, even in knowing full well how much they’ll cause pain in their lives, it is done regardless of other’s reactions. Of course, many suicidal people will rationalize that people won’t miss them at all.  Any decision that is done with a permanence that will potentially harm other people (and possibly cause them to feel suicidal themselves as a result) is a selfish decision.  Understand I’m not judging whether it’s wrong or right. I’m merely answering your question as to whether it is selfish or not. 🙂 The cause and effect of suicide are devasting for those that are forced to survive the loss of a loved one without a say.   All you have to do is think of Sue’s face and the weight of the pain and grief that she is still struggling with 19 years later.  That is the consequence of Dylan’s selfish decision to destroy not only himself (which she created) but arbitrarily steal the lives of others as well. The burden becomes the survivors.

After the January Incident when the two got arrested for the van theft on January 30, 1998.  In my opinion, that is when a match was lit under the two and they joined forces in their mutually destructive desires and motivations. That was the tipping point in their devolution, that boulder’s roll momentum to commit mass homicide to exact grand-scale revenge and to commit to dying on this mission.

Untrue.. but go ahead and send the link if you’d like.

I think you may have been reading about Brandi Jo Malonson not Brandi Tinklenberg

and why ALL CAPS ANON ?   

I’m sorry you took it personally and sorry too about your grandparents enduring such an atrocity. 😦  That said, in relation to this particular question, I was answering in the specific context as to whether the pin would’ve personally been offensive to the Klebold household in the US during the late nineties and not in a global sense.  However, there is a possibility too that since the Klebold’s have some Russian/Ukraine heritage on his mother’s side of the family that she may have not been happy about the pin – that is if she knew about it at all.  He may have fastened it on after he’d left the house.  But it’s difficult to say and I was surmising which symbolism would likely have been taken as most personally offensive to his parents.  As a citizen of the US, I will say that Nazi symbolism is much more shocking and offence as there is more of an awareness of the notorious history that it represents.  It’s particularly extremely offensive and disrespectful to those of the Jewish faith here.

Well, a Hammer and Sickle Soviet pin doesn’t exactly have the same negative, offence connotations as Nazi German symbolism for a Jewish mom. That pin might have been a tad more irreverent and offensive in the 80s with the Cold War but not by the late nineties.  I think most of what Sue saw Dylan wear she just chalked it up to him being a rebellious, edgy teenager trying to establish an individual look for himself. She saw it as typical, harmless teenage stuff. In the Diane Sawyer interview that aired February 2016, she essentially said that she was not fussed with Dylan wearing a trench coat because she was an art student in her youth and dressed unusually herself to assert her own personal aesthetic expression.  And yes, anything that his mom may have questioned him wearing or him having plastered up on his bedroom walls, he’d simply assured her with a shrug ‘doesn’t mean anything’ or ‘it looks cool’ and that would put an end to that line of questioning.  But I think he was well aware of how far he could push something considered “offensive” in his household and if he hypothetically owned anything anti-Semitic, he would’ve had the presence of mind to not wear any of that while around his parents or relatives. 

Of course, they are.  Reminded excruciatingly so every spring, when April is on the horizon, or with every mass shooting that occurs in which the media always bring up Columbine by default – just cause they like to compare everything against it even when it’s no longer a relevant comparison, or when fireworks go off during the Fourth of July or when a very loud, flashy ambulance drives by or when their friends hear an old NIN song or‘ Take My Breath Away’  or see a vintage BMW drive past…………. Always and forever. Eternally reminded. 

Agreed but I do think because both were starving for some sort of connection with female companionship the two would struggle with their own needy desperation though expressed in differing ways.  Eric would try to control and hold on tight until things would either fizzle or explode and he’d lose the girl. It would be the girl wanting out as was always the case in just a few dating relationships he’d had.  And Dylan would be there all the way in his steady, loyal, dutiful, commitment just like he was with every long-lasting friendship he ever had. Even when the relationship had spoiled and it was long past the expiration point for breaking up, and the negative (or apathetic) interactions far outweighed the positives, he would have a tendency to become the doormat with his girlfriend. He’d not be able to – would be unwilling to – come to terms with the fact that that relationship was deader than a doornail. He would focus on the memory of how things used to be and be stuck in denial trying to rekindle the happiness he thought he’d finally found with a girl in their early days together. He’d go along with the pretend facsimile of an a-okay relationship all the while holding her hand walking with her to class even if he was inwardly mad, silent and sullen with her that week.  He would try to avoid breaking up because it meant he’d be all alone again without “a love”. The girl would have to end things for him and he would take it very hard. He would take it extremely personally because it would signify he was a failure.

 I don’t rightly know how they met or became a couple. Nicole had mutual girlfriends that were part of the TCM so I think dating around within that social circle happened regularly. The outcasts that didn’t fit within the school’s accepted ‘normal’ social circles paired off within their small circle of friends from getting to know one another as friends or acquaintances first.  Robyn once dated Chris briefly too which I think just amounted to them going out together a few times. I do know that Nicole and Chris kept their being a couple secret while at school.  I’m not sure why that is but perhaps because of Chris’ hothead reputation. Just my speculation..  Nicole was just the right type of girl for him and she tamed his beast as none of his previous dates had managed to.

That’s plausible too since they were filming HMFH for Eric’s class project.  They did use ‘frickin’ in E & D’s camera rants.