WI: Columbine shooters listened to country music and dressed like rednecks

What if, instead of wearing trenchcoats, Harris and Klebold dressed like rednecks, and they were known to be fans of country music and prefer it over other types of music?
 
A lot of folks thought of McVey as a Redneck, or a blue collar working man type. Certainly not like the crazy intellectual archtype like the Uni Bomber.

If there were a lot of attention to H & K listening to Country Music I'd expect a number of country artists would publicly disavow sympathy & disassociate themselves with H & K philosophy of violence. C & W artists seem to be fairly political and socially astute. Not the intellectual peers of Ozzy Osbourne.
 

Geon

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I hate to say this but given the knee-jerk reaction among conservatives that I remember from the time. The blame fell on violent video games, TV shows, and whatever music Klebold and Harris liked. I am afraid country music would take a hit from many conservative watchdog groups.

P.S. Be aware I am politically conservative and think such condemnations do not consider the WHOLE situation concerning Klebold and Harris and what made them do what they did.
 
Nothing. If they were fan of country music, then that fact would have went completely unnoticed by the media.

Unlike Rap and Heavy Metal, country music is too mainstream to be whipped up into a moral panic.
 
I hate to say this but given the knee-jerk reaction among conservatives that I remember from the time. The blame fell on violent video games, TV shows, and whatever music Klebold and Harris liked. I am afraid country music would take a hit from many conservative watchdog groups.

P.S. Be aware I am politically conservative and think such condemnations do not consider the WHOLE situation concerning Klebold and Harris and what made them do what they did.
However, conservatives tend to like country music (hence it was "shocking" that the Dixie Chicks weren't conservative) while Fox News was already hostile to Marilyn Manson before Columbine.
 
It wouldn't matter. They won't consider their own as psychopaths (and to be fair, it would take a pretty unhinged mind to kill people like that, even if they did have a rough time of it), so they'll find some other excuse.

The liberals might get a good chuckle out of it, though.
 
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