WI Klebold and Harris are more competent at bomb-making

The infamous Columbine killers had originally intended to blow up the Columbine High School cafeteria and library. In OTL, their bombs failed to go off, and they instead killed as many students as they could with guns.

What if they built a better bomb, something not a dud? What if, instead of fifteen deaths, the death toll was drastically higher? What would have a large-scale bomb attack by teenagers have meant for American popular culture?
 
Well, restrictions on bombmaking components would be increased. Security at high schools would be increased even more. Copycats would be making bombs instead of shooting people. In fact, there may be a lot more bombmakers as a result...
 
Well, restrictions on bombmaking components would be increased. Security at high schools would be increased even more. Copycats would be making bombs instead of shooting people. In fact, there may be a lot more bombmakers as a result...

So would people think this was part of a pattern of supposedly right-wing terrorist attacks, after OKC?
 
So would people think this was part of a pattern of supposedly right-wing terrorist attacks, after OKC?

Like the person who a few years ago was going around the mid-west setting off pipe bomb in mail boxes. Many jumped to the "right-wing extremeist" conclusion, but it turned out that it was a college student from Wisconsin who was experiencing a schizophrenic break (his 1st) from reality. (As I recall, his targets were chosen so as to form a giant :) on the map.)
 

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The bar for them being more competent is very low: the bomb did not go off.

Raising their bomb-making skills will have one result: their bomb works, but they're so stupid they blow themselves up.

If you came into this thread expecting a flame war of any kind, please rest assured, I have ended discussion with the only logical outcome and you do not have to moan at one another endlessly.
 
The bar for them being more competent is very low: the bomb did not go off.

Raising their bomb-making skills will have one result: their bomb works, but they're so stupid they blow themselves up.

If you came into this thread expecting a flame war of any kind, please rest assured, I have ended discussion with the only logical outcome and you do not have to moan at one another endlessly.

Logic and reason...
 
The bar for them being more competent is very low: the bomb did not go off.

Raising their bomb-making skills will have one result: their bomb works, but they're so stupid they blow themselves up.

So, it might take some time for investigators to determine who actually placed the bomb.
 
The bar for them being more competent is very low: the bomb did not go off.

Raising their bomb-making skills will have one result: their bomb works, but they're so stupid they blow themselves up.

If you came into this thread expecting a flame war of any kind, please rest assured, I have ended discussion with the only logical outcome and you do not have to moan at one another endlessly.

Actually, they apparently left the bomb to actually blow up, and planned to shoot any escaping survivors... so...
 
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