Columbine

How did parents of victims and student react after the massacre of the Columbine shooting?

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The author pointed out repeatedly that people wanted to know why Dylan and Eric walked into the Columbine High School and killed thirteen of their classmates. The short answer is that they were psychopaths filled with rage, wanting to do a great deal of damage to the world but settling on the attack on the school. The boys had set out with a plan to bomb the school and to shoot those who were fleeing the scene. The bombs didn't go off so they went inside with the intention of simply killing whoever came into contact with them. Many people wanted there to be a reason behind the killings so badly that the myth of Dylan and Eric killing jocks, students who had bullied them, or targeting specific ethnicities was reported as fact. Even when that was disproved, the myth continued and it was probably a way some people had of coping with the horror of the crimes. There were some parents who sued the county solely for the purpose of gathering information. Those parents wanted the documents gathered and compiled following the shootings released. They also wanted the parents of Dylan and Eric to answer questions. There were problems with those efforts to gain answers. First, the parents of Dylan and Eric had no clue why their sons committed the murders then killed themselves. Another problem was the magnitude of the evidence. There were thousands of documents, pieces of information, and pieces of forensic evidence. Even the experts trained for the job had trouble analyzing the information.

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