Columbine, Five Years Out

[womzilla]

Terrific article on Slate about the Columbine killers.

The Depressive and the Psychopath
At last we know why the Columbine killers did it.
By Dave Cullen

. . .

Harris and Klebold would have been dismayed that Columbine was dubbed the "worst school shooting in American history." They set their sights on eclipsing the world's greatest mass murderers, but the media never saw past the choice of venue. The school setting drove analysis in precisely the wrong direction.

Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand "the killers," quit asking what drove them. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions. . . .

And much more.

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I not only found this interesting, I find the pervasive myths equally interesting. A sad story any way you slice it.