Sociologist Ralph Larkin has theorized the massacre was to trigger a revolution of outcast students and the dispossessed ; " as an overtly political act in the name of oppressed students victimized by their peers ... The Columbine shootings redefined such acts not merely as revenge but as a means of protest of bullying , intimidation , social isolation , and public rituals of humiliation . " One author argues Columbine was only increasingly linked to terrorism after the September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Columbine High School massacre