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News & Current Events Apr 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM

Gunman who fired on tourists at Mexican pyramid carried materials related to 1999 Columbine massacre

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Gunman who fired on tourists at Mexican pyramid carried materials related to 1999 Columbine massacre
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Gunman who fired on tourists at Mexican pyramid carried materials related to 1999 Columbine massacre
The gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico’s iconic Teotihuacan pyramids carried materials that were apparently related to the deadly 1999 shooting at Columbine High School.
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nyg1219 20 hr ago +697
And this is why we no longer broadcast manifestos and the like.
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ABob71 19 hr ago +138
Why King decided to stop selling *"Rage"*
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PointsOfXP 10 hr ago +7
Still in the bachman book collection and it's trash
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Fantastic_Oil_2609 15 hr ago +39
You think we ever stopped? The last major school shooting in the US had everyone arguing about whether they were far right or trans because of what they wrote on their gun. People demanded the release of the Nashville shooter's manifesto too.
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Queeb_the_Dweeb 11 hr ago +5
Every school shooting should be classified as 'major' imo
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ddfjeje23344 8 hr ago +1
That makes no sense. 'Major' is in relation to other school shootings.
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NewGuyCH 12 hr ago +4
They really should though, only very few have a smart take on anything. Usually they read like 12 yr old conspiracy/ fan fiction. You can tell the people are either seriously mentally ill or very stupid or both. I guess sure sometimes the work of one idiot resonates with the other.
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Diezelbub 8 hr ago +1
We really shouldn't. Letting other amoral mentally ill idiots know their diary will be broadcast to the world if they kill a few people will actually make suicidal idiots go that route. Its called media contagion. "I want to be famous / have everyone know my manifesto" is often an openly stated goal by these people, giving them what they want makes no sense, especially if the reason to do it boils down to seeing it as entertainment based media. It may have some value to academic and public health lenses but it has absolutely no value to the general public outside that, asking mass media to make money from spreading it is a dangerous policy that costs lives.
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Lancashire_Toreador 16 hr ago +15
Well, of course. If people read those manifestos and kept noticing a bunch of racism and bigotry, we might start actually thinking about [solving the actual issues and conditions that caused someone to go out and want to do these kinds of things](https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/reports-and-publications/pre-attack-behaviors-of-active-shooters-in-us-2000-2013.pdf/view). Instead, we can choose to burn all political capital sweeping it under the rug by just banning guns.
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nyg1219 15 hr ago +29
We tried that, and it turns out, it just inspires more people to follow in their footsteps. I understand where you are coming from, but the reality doesn't match the ideal. There's no understanding or logic to found in a school shooters brain. We can look at their circumstances without ever releasing their manifestos.
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hollow_bridge 14 hr ago +7
> There's no understanding or logic to found in a school shooters brain. Eh, we dont like it or agree with it, but they normally do have their own logic which does make sense in their situation, and an analysis of it can help provide solutions for prevention. For example we know that a lot of these people end up being convinced of their ideas by heavily moderated echo chambers. And there are solutions that may solve these problems. However I'm not disagreeing with the manifestos inspiring more crimes and needing to be hidden. I think perhaps providing excerpts from them to the public might be useful though.
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FormerlyGruntled 13 hr ago +9
> it just inspires more people to follow in their footsteps. A shame none of the issues that have driven people to radical action, have been addressed. Instead, it's all just thoughts and prayers, with no action or acknowledgement.
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Northern-Canadian 13 hr ago +4
I think this assumes there are valid arguments in the manifestos unless you’re assuming mental health support being the issue.
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Lancashire_Toreador 8 hr ago +1
Mass shooters aren't some inherent force of nature, with us all condemned to merely shelter cowering for the next time it inevitably happens. They're a well documented phenomenon with repeated, predictable behavior. [The FBI did an in-depth review of the pre-attack behavior of mass shooters and they follow a very consistent pattern.](https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/reports-and-publications/pre-attack-behaviors-of-active-shooters-in-us-2000-2013.pdf/view) we can describe and predict the kind of environments that lead to mass shootings and we can fix things to prevent them.
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socialistrob 13 hr ago +9
> If people read those manifestos and kept noticing a bunch of racism and bigotry, we might start actually thinking about solving the actual issues Or we'd just ignore it and move in. American society has gotten very good at looking horrible things in the eye and just pretending it isn't an issue.
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jesonnier1 10 hr ago +1
Quit acting like it's only an American thing.
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Lasagna_Lizard 8 hr ago +1
Canada has had ONE major school shooting in recent memory and the entire country was in mourning. How many has America had? Anything done more than thoughts and prayers?
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ars-derivatia 20 hr ago -225
It's an event that happened 27 years ago, mate. Care to elaborate how limiting the immediate exposure of the manifestos in media to issuade copycats works here?
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mooes 19 hr ago +120
They mean going forward. Like we have learned not to do that anymore.
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ars-derivatia 9 hr ago
> They mean going forward. Like we have learned not to do that anymore. Yeah and my point is that in this case someone clearly got their inspiration from sources other than the broadcast (since it happened 30 years ago) so whether we broadcast the manifestos or not immediately after the event is irrelevant. Doesn't matter if we speak about the Columbine one or the current ones 30 years in the future.
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LilyPogger69 19 hr ago +80
English can be a bit tricky. Let me offer you a hand here! See the commentor said "manifestos" rather than "the manifesto". In this circumstance the difference between the two phrases, while it may seem subtle, does a lot! By saying "manifestos" the commentor implies manifestos in general. Using context clues we can assume they mean manifestos from terrorists. Had the commentor said "the manifesto" then they'd be referring to the one made by the Columbine shooters.
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irealllylovepenguins 19 hr ago +11
No no, you're talking about the list of cargo on an aeroplane. The word you're looking for is "manifold".
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squeegee_boy 19 hr ago +8
No, that’s an exhaust header on an engine. You’re thinking of muffintop
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LazyMousse4266 17 hr ago +3
No that’s fat spilling over your jeans. The word you’re looking for is muffuletta.
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rhezz12 16 hr ago +1
Y’all really doing this overtired bit on a thread about a shooting?
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Silver_Sun_2097 16 hr ago +8
No no you mean a pew pewing
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irealllylovepenguins 16 hr ago +5
No that's when you talk negatively about something. You're thinking of a puh-puh platter
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Fantastic_Oil_2609 15 hr ago +2
To be fair, the manifesto left behind by the Columbine shooters (the Basement Tapes) was never published aside from leaked transcripts.
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ars-derivatia 9 hr ago +1
> By saying "manifestos" the commentor implies manifestos in general. Using context clues we can assume they mean manifestos from terrorists. You misunderstood me. Someone inspired by an even that happened **30 years ago clearly didn't get this inspiration from the news**, they got it from other sources, so how do news handle cases (broadcast manifestos or not) is absolutely irrelevant to what happens **30 years later**, when everyone can look it up on the internet anyway. Doesn't matter if we talk about Columbine manifesto or today's terrorists whose manifestos people will read 30 years in the future. No one understood me actually. Apparently my communication skills suck. Or Listnook is just dumb.
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k_realtor 19 hr ago +12
It's more about wrong time, right place situation. (Guy who wanted to murder someone found some extra motivation to do it, not saying it's the right place but was in the environment to lead up to do something bad) Then got radicalized or something and that was enough to push him into some sort of "sociology experiment" A good example of that Australian comedian who said it, there's always going to be one idiot that (paraphrasing but forgot how it went) want to drink bleach or like f****** pigs? and then there's another person on the other side of the planet that does the same thing. They just connected with each other online annnnnnnd now it's a "group" or society to agree with each other to do something stupid.
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nyg1219 18 hr ago +3
u/mooes and u/LilyPogger69 are both on point. 
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throwawayboingboing 19 hr ago +126
Could've been a lot worse if he got a hold of anything other than an old revolver. What a shit bag.
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yellowsweaters72 16 hr ago +48
Losers then, losers now.
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FadeToBSoD 20 hr ago +132
Copycats are real.
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Automatic_Bird_8702 19 hr ago +136
Should've connected the dots, yesterday was the anniversary
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HummaKavula95 19 hr ago +112
Connected it to this random guy to this specific place how?
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Not_Cleaver 19 hr ago +86
Because nut jobs feel some connection to Columbine even though it’s been decades.
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wwhsd 18 hr ago +87
And the guys who shot up Columbine felt a connection to Hitler’s birthday even though it had been decades. It’s nutjobs all the way down.
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PurpleWoodpecker2830 16 hr ago +13
Damn I thought we just smoked weed on that day
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KotoElessar 16 hr ago +2
Wait; that was yesterday? I totally forgot!
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Inimicus33 9 hr ago +1
Not only that, the guy who killed Hitler ALSO shared birthday with Hitler.
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SableBlair 17 hr ago +25
Columbine is a core memory for a lot of millennials. They were sitting in a classroom when the media beat the first responders to the school. They watched in frustration as the first responders did nothing in response to a whiteboard in the window that said someone was bleeding to death inside. They watched a kid who had been shot in the head fall out of a library window. The parents of one of the victims learned of his death from seeing their son’s body photographed in a newspaper.
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occupy_this7 15 hr ago +8
And every kid didn't have a cell phone at the time. It was a free for all on scene with media. Parents frantically trying to get ahold of their children. I can't imagine. Was there what 450+kids in the cafeteria alone at one point?
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partylange 18 hr ago +5
The date.
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UrbanistTroglodyte 15 hr ago +6
He didn't even get the right day? What a f****** dork, these shooters are such dweebs. There was one a couple of years back in Halifax of all places, good news is the only person they managed to shoot was themselves.
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BobbyHillsPurse 18 hr ago +21
Not the best way to share cultures
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Drumming_Dreaming 13 hr ago +4
I wish they’d just start with themselves.
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isaacfrost0 17 hr ago +18
What is this, a crossover mass shooting?
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bestwinner4L 14 hr ago +6
it’s a collab 
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GrassForsaken3953 20 hr ago +63
So another one of those incels?🤔
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MelodyMaster5656 20 hr ago +11
Damn it’s a whole multiverse.
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PolitePenguin86 18 hr ago +11
You can't be serious.
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shinjuku-demon 16 hr ago +3
The article mentions the Mexican President citing potential for “external influences” in these kinds of events, and in a currently unrelated matter, Mexico also just found two CIA agents were operating illegally in Mexico. They only found this out because they were killed in action. US is out of control right now, especially with gun violence. More US citizens are looking to leave than ever before. Trump doesn’t want to be one-upped by anyone, but especially not Mexico. It’s not that far fetched to think that the US government could invoke terror in Mexico to curb any additional appeal it may have to US citizens.
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PolitePenguin86 16 hr ago
For one that's not what he's talking about and you know that. For two, it's beyond laughable that you think the CIA needs to do this as if that narco state that's been plagued with horrific daily violence for decades, is seen in a positive light...
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shinjuku-demon 15 hr ago +5
You’re right, I would not have phrased it the way that person did “exporting neo-nazis”, but the sentiment is the same (US involvement). The CIA is obviously invested in Mexico for some reason, because two of them were just found. And yes, Mexico has its own problems, but their shootings are generally gang on gang/cartel on cartel. Not shooting little kids at school, the mall, the movie theaters, or tourists at a tourist site.
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cemetarydj92 17 hr ago -1
Happened on 4/20, guy had expressed interest in Hitler, fascism and had an AI picture of himself with the dudes from Columbine. What part of his ideology and radicalization has roots in Mexico? This was clearly a right wing act of terror. https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-21/julio-cesar-jasso-ramirez-the-teotihuacan-shooter-who-celebrated-the-columbine-massacre-and-the-fascist-far-right.html
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AceOfSpades532 17 hr ago +8
What, and Hitler, fascism, and the right wing are all from the USA?
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flypirat 13 hr ago +2
The current US admin does like to export their fascism and right wing views, and they do like to express their perception on how Hitler and Nazis are misunderstood.
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cemetarydj92 16 hr ago -5
Did you purposely skip Columbine? Lol or is that not from the USA I wonder
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AceOfSpades532 16 hr ago +2
You said all of those things like they were linked to the USA. Obviously Columbine is which is why I didn’t mention it, but are you seriously saying the other things come from there?
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TheOstrichRoom 16 hr ago -1
yeah actually, hitlers goal was to be like the usa. the us is worse than nazi germany.
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AceOfSpades532 9 hr ago +1
Why do idiots online keep repeating this bullshit? He took inspiration by some parts of American segregation and treatment of native Americans, he wasn’t trying to turn into the US because the US wasn’t fascist, how stupid are you?
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partylange 18 hr ago +12
Mexicans have been killing long before the Anglos were on the continent, don't appropriate this.
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More_Bigger 17 hr ago -2
Didn't the cartel take an entire city hostage last week? Lol, clown.
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cemetarydj92 17 hr ago +8
What does this have to do with the cartels, jackass?
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