There is no sob story that can explain away a mass shooter’s motives.

In the weeks following the Columbine High School massacre, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were many things to many people: “[disciples of [Marilyn] Manson](https://web.archive.org/web/20161008181330/http://www.mtv.com/news/513754/colorado-tragedy-continues-to-spark-manson-bashing/)”; members of the “[Trench Coat Mafia](https://www.denverpost.com/1999/04/21/columbine-high-school-trench-coat-mafia/)”—that is, a Satanic cabal of Hitler-lovers among Denverite teens; they were even goths. That’s right, [*goths*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/04/21/trench-coat-mafia-spun-dark-fantasy/d8e70956-cb51-40d1-9e95-cdd20c105c98/).

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There is no sob story that can explain away a mass shooter’s motives.

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