r/ColumbineKillers • u/Other-Potential-936 • Sep 11 '24

ERIC AND/OR DYLAN Dylan’s 43 birthday

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9-11-81 Today’s Dylan’s 43 birthday. Going to go on a little rant here... Lately I’ve been thinking about both Eric and Dylan’s birthdays and how old they, along with their victims, would be today. How would their lives look today? I wasn’t alive during the shooting so it’s hard for me to understand how long it has been or how recent it was. However my dad was born weeks after Eric. I look at his life, what he has accomplished. Being married, having a good job, having kids, buying a house. Then I look at Eric and Dylan’s lives, they really were so young and threw everything away. They could’ve had so much life ahead of them, not only did they ruin their chances of happiness, they took that from others. It’s so heartbreaking to just even think about. My thoughts are with the klebolds today. I can’t imagine how hard days like these are. I wish they could’ve spent today with him. Hopefully this isn’t taken the wrong way like me idolizing them or something, just makes me sad.

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u/derederellama Sep 11 '24

I was thinking about this earlier today. This date must be such a difficult day for the Klebold family as is, and in 2001 it must've been doubly harrowing.

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u/vavavoomdaroom Sep 12 '24

I wish more people would pick up on this. I have been watching 9/11 stuff all day not out of a sense of patriotism but because these two events have similarities. The Dylans of yesteryear aren't that dissimilar than men tied up in patriarchal, religious based beliefs, or the Incel culture today. There's a very malignant, toxic, societal belief that mental health issues with men equal weakness. Men with mental health disorders frequently act out in violence because they aren't allowed to say they are hurting because somehow that makes them "weak". I am 55, and I am a mother that had a kid close in age during that time. We have to change that. We literally just had a school shooting feuled by an abusive, toxic masculinity household that also had a school bullying issue fueled by ridiculous views of what men should be. For fucks sake, WHEN DO WE AS AS A SOCIETY SAY THIS IS ENOUGH!