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A videotape recorded shortly before the 1999 Columbine High School massacre shows the teenage gunmen taking target practice and laughing about the damage their weapons could do. “Imagine that in someone’s [expletive] brains,” Eric Harris says after blasting a hole in a bowling pin. Six weeks after making the video with three friends, Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into the school and murdered 12 classmates and a teacher, then committed suicide. Investigators released the tape last week under pressure to make police files public. The father of a slain student said he hoped the tape would help other school officials spot “red flags�� and prevent future tragedies. “What they said they were going to do, they did,” Brian Rohrbough said.
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