10 years later, the real columbine

[.paul]

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[V1GiLaNtE]

damn........ hock:

[Goodspeed]

Yep, such a tragic story. I remember being in middle school when this happened but being aware of the media storm that the article mentions...gun control, video games, Marilyn Manson etc. It really was a crazy time....

Its also understandable, and pretty frightening, to not be able to comprehend that your son/friend/student is actually an aspiring mass murderer.

[CaptainHenreh]

I'm actually a little glad to see this. Normal kids who maybe smoke a little leaf or play DOOM or GTA or watch bad Jason Statham movies don't go off planting bombs in schools and shooting people for the fuck of it. Psychopaths do that.

Apparently, we need more psychopath control.

[.paul]

I like the fact they stated in the article, they felt bad for the parents. I mean it is so true, no parent is going to assume their child is a psychopath murder.

For one thing, he notes, Harris' parents "knew they had a problem ÔÇö they thought they were dealing with it. What kind of parent is going to think, 'Well, maybe Eric's a mass murderer.' You just don't go there."

[WRXtranceformed]

Interesting thought that had they waited a few years and gotten good jobs they could have financed a much worse attack.

While I also feel really bad for their parents, you have to put at least a small fraction of this on their shoulders. I was a psych major and studied psychological issues but children who are raised in an open, loving and nuturing relationship with their parents just don't plan out terrorist attacks during their spare time. If the parents of that one killer knew he was depressed and he was going to counseling, they should probably have been able to pick up on the suicidal feelings and gotten a little more involved with what he was doing.

If I ever have children (which is unlikely) you better believe I would be invading the shit out of their privacy while they're living in my home if I think there's even an inkling of suicidal thoughts. I battled with depression in high school but I sure wasnt building bombs.

[balactm]

While i agree with many of you, it's not all cut and dry. I was depressed for a long time and hid it from my mom for several years. I even hid the fact that i was suicidal. It's not hard. Eventually you begin living a lie with your parents, saying you're just tired or had a bad day at school. There's a good chance they didn't feel love from their parents and so didn't let them in. I've done it. And it's sad to say, but i was dangerously close to going through with it on a few occasions. Never tried, but i can easily see how something like that could be hidden from parents. Parents want to trust their children and don't want to pry. They want to give their kids their space, and to some kids who are already depressed, that can seem like the parents don't love them. I don't condone their actions at all, because i feel everyone should be responsible for themselves and their actions, but i do understand how they could get to that point.

[Goodspeed]

children who are raised in an open, loving and nuturing relationship with their parents just don't plan out terrorist attacks during their spare time.

I think that sometimes, kids are just born with chemical imbalances in the brain, a certain gene, call it whatever you want, but they're just not right from birth.

A lot of kids are messed up because of poor parenting and bad environments, sure, but I think people like Eric Harris were rotten from the cradle, maniacal, and perhaps smarter than most. If he was able to fool his parents and others into thinking he was a good kid while planning doomsday, he was just a bad kid no matter what the circumstances were.