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of writing dated 26 April 1998, printed on the Westword web site
based in Denver, Eric Harris wrote that he and Klebold would
enforce "natural selection" in their school:
Sometime in April [of 1999] me and V [Klebold, whom he
called "V" of "Vodka" in the journals] will get revenge and will
kick natural selection up a few notches. Armed with the fol-
lowing; a terrorist bag full of noisey crickets, noisey crickets
strapped to WD40 cans, pipe bombs with a ... load of shrapnel,
fire bombs, chlorine gas bombs, and smoke bombs. 1
In addition, the words "NATURAL SELECTION" were
printed on Harris' T-shirt at the time of the attack. 2
It appears from the writings that theirs was an act of re-
venge against teachers and students whom they regarded as "in-
ferior." 3
In most of his writings, Harris constantly referred to natural
selection and feelings of superiority. In the three videos they shot
before the attack, the two referred to themselves as more
"evolved" than others and to the feeling of being "above
human." 4
Indeed, exactly in April as Harris had written in his journal,
he and Klebold entered Columbine High School with weapons
similar to those they had referred to and began massacring the
students there. Both were known in the school for their admira-
tion of Hitler, and wore T-shirts with swastika emblems on them.
Furthermore, the day they carried out the attack would have
been Hitler's 110th birthday.
These two boys were apparently ordinary high school stu-
dents with stable family backgrounds, whom nobody had ever
imagined would perpetrate such an attack. In addition, it ap-
pears from their journals that they had good relations with their
families and experienced no problems with them.
The abnormally aggressive streak in these young people's
characters which propelled them to perpetrate such a psycho-

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