Columbine Shooting

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Originally Posted by ManiacallyChallenged

I don't want to sound insensitive, but it's kind of a shame that things like the Intratec guns will always be associated with this. I suppose they are typically "gang-guns" anyway, but still.

Yeah, I think the TEC-9 was already notorious enough as a "gang-banger's gun" before Columbine. When most people think of TEC-9s, they think of Crip gang members firing TECs from the windows of a moving car while doing a drive-by (with a sideways "gangsta" grip, of course). Same way that everyone associates Tommy Guns with Prohibition Era-gangsters. Even now, the TEC still has that reputation despite the fact that it isn't produced anymore.

Plus there was the shooting in San Francisco, 6 years before Columbine.