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William Atchison, the Aztec High School shooter, had a vast online presence. He posted on many forums about school shootings, and he was especially sympathetic towards Jeff Weise, who was the perpetrator of the 2005 Red Lake shooting. He would post about other shooters, but mainly in a satirical and mocking light, whereas when he posted about Jeff Weise, he was compassionate and respectful.

Some of his posts relating to Jeff Weise:

Aight now I'm done with all those posts so let me move back to discussing Jeff Weise. I don't give a fuck about the new stigma of giving attention to killers, as it's going to happen anyways. Let me just say I bet green money Jeff knew if he just killed himself he wouldn't be remembered by more than like a dozen people. All who gave him shit wouldn't care and would laugh at him anyways and think of him as weak. You cannot hope for any decency from a bunch of scumbags who lack any form of empathy anyways. Mass murderers kill for fame.

I know its a bit out of place to write a TL;DR piece about jeff on another article, but whatever. If you look at the area where he lived, it's on a native american reservation. I live near the largest one in the US, the navajo nation. There's a huge crime rate there, with extreme homicide/suicide rates, and everyone is dirt poor. It's a fucking 3rd world country in the middle of fucking nowhere (arizona). Now imagine instead of a desert wasteland, a cold, (even more) isolated place far from a city. Imagine all the pain 'regret' went through. His parents dying, having only his grandparents to depend on, in the middle of nowhere back before the internet became super-social. Of course when he went postal it did get 15 minutes of fame, but nobody knows who he is... because he isn't some suburban white boy. There's a bias on other races.

Come next march, it will be 10 years since his death! That's an entire decade that's passed. If ghosts exist, that means the bloke had to deal with a decade of extra misery, now possibly tormented by 8 victims.

Reminds me of Jeff Weise. Can't believe it's been almost 10 years since that guy did all that shit. Guy went through a fucked up life, it's a shame nobody helped him get out of the pit of darkness his mind was in.

It's really sad that bloke went through all that. Dad committing suicide, mom being highly abusive then getting in a car crash and being permanently disabled I think, living in that native american reservation where like most of the students were suicidal, and it had a low graduation rate. That kid was an outcast in that town, and had a hellish life, even after that shit happened he was still mostly ignored after the media shitstorm faded. I dont believe in glorifying violence but the right thing to do is to have pity and empathy for who that guy was.. but not necessarily what he became.

I don't intend to white knight or anything, but I'm very sympathetic to the pain and suffering they all dealt with (and still do) as I came from the same general background in a sense and I have firsthand experience of what hell is like, as I've lived in an isolated area of the US too with a lot of scumbags.

He was such an hero, to take it all away. We miss him so, That you should know, And we honor him this day. He was an hero, to take that shot, to leave us all behind. God do we wish we could take it back, And now he's on our minds. Jeff Weise was an hero, to leave us feeling like this, Our minds are rubber, our joints don't work, Our tears fall into abyss. He was an hero, to take that shot, In life it wasn't his task, He shouldn't have had to go that way, before an decade'd past. Now he sits there in my heart, this hero of mine, Always there to make me smile, Make me feel just fine. He had courage,that boy did, courage in his heart. To take that shot, To end his pain, To tear us all apart. But in the end, he died in courage.

Weise lived far away from a lot of american civilization in a fucking rez. You all know his life story by now so it should be of no surprise why he was so dark and disturbed. To wrap this tl;dr post up.. The reason why most modern mass murderers exist is because they know for a fact that suicide alone would just leave them forgotten forever. But if they pull the trigger and take out some random people with them, the media will make them the talk of (not only the town) but the nation and perhaps even the world.

Red Lake was on-par with columbine, and yet only got 1% as much attention. You know why? Because they were all native americans- minorities. Even still, a lot of people still faintly remember it 10 years later. Imagine if weise never went postal. Maybe a dozen would've known about it enough to turn a glance his way for a moment, maybe his grandpa would care. It's the killer's fault for the tragedy, but society's fault for making the killers.

Like I usually say, for this specific case (Red Lake) it's hard not to feel incredibly sorry for the bloke. Given his life circumstances, very few would've overcome those challenges and horrible experiences to become a normal person.

If I had a decent family, great genetics and didnt live in a desert shithole state, I would've had a future and a positive outlook on life too. Even small changes like a different location around here would've had massive effects on my psyche. When that guy had his dad kill himself, a drunk abusive shithead for a mom (Who became disabled for life due to a car crash) and was forced to move to a indian reservation you cant blame him for being violent and suicidal. Like I said, I live near the largest native rez in the country. Even 20 miles from the border in a small quiet town, there's still lots of corruption, suicidal people (a 13 year old boy killed himself a while ago) and no real jobs. We're mostly white, if that says anything. Even generic american whites are living in 3rd world conditions out here.

William Atchison had a youtube channel dedicated to archiving material about Jeff Weise / the red lake shooting, which is still up.

He also left a message on Jeff Weise’s ‘findagrave’.