One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY Month Of The WWE Attitude Era

This one gets a bit dark. Apologies. A content warning for real gun violence follows. 

The 1999 Columbine High School massacre was fated to happen irrespective of the pop culture consumed by the killers because the lead perpetrator, Eric Harris, was a psychopath who idly dreamed of nightmarish violence and held a nihilistic outlook before he could even buy his own CDs. The boy who was effectively his accomplice, Dylan Klebold, was a suggestible depressive. The media scapegoated several musical artists, game developers, and filmmakers in a story that was misunderstood from the very beginning. It wasn’t even a deliberate mass shooting; it was a failed bombing, the gun violence that followed an impromptu back-up plan. The killers only brought guns to the scene to pick off any potential survivors streaming from the cafeteria doors and to bring an end to their lives. (If you are interested in the subject, read the work of Dave Cullen. It is illuminating.)

Do you want to know who was not responsible for Columbine? 

The f*cking Undertaker, whom certain media outlets blamed to the quite justified fury of the WWF, per the May 3, 1999 Observer. 

The Undertaker character was an easy target. He was a pop culture figure with, in 1999, “satanic” overtones. The character was rooted in death, with which the killers were obsessed. At times, he wore something that vaguely resembled a trenchcoat. Here’s the thing: the Columbine killers were not part of any ‘Trenchcoat Mafia’. There’s no evidence that they even watched wrestling. Also, this stuff does not influence mass murders. 

For the tragic death of Owen Hart, the World Wrestling Federation deserved criticism of the most intense kind in May 1999. But not for this.