had
             begun thinking about a large massacre in 1998 - one year before the actual
             School shooters typically act impulsively, attacking only the targets of
             their rage: students and faculty. However, Harris and Klebold plotted
             their crime for a year and aimed at a greater task. The school was, in
             their eyes, simply a means to an end. The pair aimed to terrorize the
             entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was
             aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of
             these individuals. Students and teachers were just convenient targets,
             described by well-known terrorist Timothy McVeigh as "collateral damage."
             The murderous duo had little respect for petty school shooters (Cullen,
             2004). They laughed at massacre of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally
             planned to carry out their own terrorist act on its anniversary. Klebold
             was filmed on video bragging about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S.
             history." Columbine would not serve as a shooting to them, but as a bom
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