The parents suffer a fate worse than death. They must everyday be judged, ridiculed, questioned and blamed for what their children did. I bet they torture themselves. Eric and Dylan suffer no more. The students killed, the teacher killed, they aren't suffering. The ones left alive, the wounded and the parents, they are the victims that are still living. That is worse than death.
Be responsible. Be a good parent. Teach values. Have time for your kids. Talk to them and listen. Give them love, self-esteem, and respect. Give them advice when they need it. Keep them away from guns and violence. Thats very usefull.
I hate this stupid mentality. "They're not suffering anymore, therefore they have it better" bullshit. They aren't suffering yes, but they also do not exist anymore! Those who suffer alive today are FAR better off than those that died.
@@pasijutaulietuviuesas9174 No Dylan and Eric are suffering. They are not in a good place. You reap what you sow. And they sowed death and now they are reaping it now.😓
Jenni Niccum They were a lot smarter than some people think ^ they shoulda just realized the people that bullied them were prob just jealous. Most jocks i knew in school were dumb so 😂
I can't say I feel bad for eric and Dylan (though I am sorry they were mentally ill) but I do feel bad for their families who other than maybe missing some warning signs didn't do anything to deserve this.
I was brutally bullied in 5th grade and I didn't have any friends I had thoughts about going into the class and hurting people. I'm sure their are many people who harbor feelings of hate for being bullied but the vast majority don't act on their angry thoughts and do what Harris Klebold Cho, would do.
@@amazingabby25 I heard about columbine on its exact 25th year anniversary because I randomly got a 25 years ago live account on my twitter timeline which was live covering columbine that day. At first I thought it was happening in the present day so I dug deeper and it became extremely interesting to me. I can't stop thinking about it and my thoughts have grown much darker. I don't understand and I don't like it. I wish I could go back in time to stop myself from seeing that post or digging any deeper. I miss my life and my normal thoughts from before I started learning about it. I miss not being obsessed and thinking about it every day and every night. Now, I will never kill someone because I am too peaceful and actually seeing someone elses blood makes me sick but I just wish my thoughts weren't so dark and so focused on columbine
I feel sorrow for the victims families and the victims, but I also feel sorrow for Dylan and Eric. I am in no way about to condone what they did, because no matter how much you are suffering, killing people is not the answer. I don't wish for their names to be dragged through the mud and slaundered. What I wish, is for the their names to be used in a way that we can all make sure that something like this never happens again (Virginia Tech Massacre included). My heart also goes out to the
Eric was bullied way more even Dylan told his mom it was Eric mostly bullied. People were intimidated by Dylan's height. Eric flat out mentions revenge for bullying in his journal and on the NBK day
There should have been no blame on the parents. Sue's book details her trip to the hairdresser right after the shootings. It was part of her regular routine and her lawyer suggested she keep it so she could try and stay as normal as possible. The Harris' and the Klebold families are equally victims, yet in separate ways. Dylan's first cousin who lived in another state at the time was so traumatised she was diagnosed with PTSD. Everyone around them suffered because of their actions.
I think the Harrises problem is that they put too much faith into the mental health regimen that their son was on and backed out of his life because they thought that the system was doing their job for them. Maybe they thought he needed some space. I don’t have any resentment towards them but i sure as hell don’t blame any of the victims families for doing so and I still believe that it is partially their fault... Also the police, and the doctors Who prescribed the main perpetrator an anti-depressant that just happened to coincide with his descent into insanity
The Doctor Yeah, because killing 13 people (mostly kids) and injuring many more is such an amazing behaviour! not, why would they not be monsters, they chose to do what they did, that makes them monsters
aris moonlight nobody chooses to be mentally ill,and nobody chooses getting bullied which ruin their mental health more than what it already is,i do agree that they could have did something better with their lives but they were mentally fucked and were surrounded by negative energy so they aren’t the only people who should take all the blame,we should focus on how to stop bullying and spread awareness about mental health and how dangerous it can become if not taken care of.
@@nuknuknuk111 She is right though, it's upsetting to see how he COULD have gotten help and could have been caught and how he could have had a possibly good future, yet it was ruined by his overwhelming hatred and negativity for the school and people in it.. Nobody glorified him for what he did, only supporting the fact that he could have possibly had a nice life and gotten over the teenage rebellious stage of highschool.
I mean most children are cute I guess. If you looked at 1000 baby pics or 5 year old pics you probably couldn't pick out the ones that were mass murderers. I get what you're saying though.
I think the Harrises problem is that they put too much faith into the mental health regimen that their son was on and backed out of his life because they thought that the system was doing their job for them. Maybe they thought he needed some space. I don’t have any resentment towards them but i sure as hell don’t blame any of the victims families for doing so and I still believe that it is partially their fault... Also the police, and the doctors Who prescribed the main perpetrator an anti-depressant that just happened to coincide with his descent into insanity
some schools in utah even threatened to expel any student who was discoveredtobe attendingmarilyn manson concerts Land of the free? HA! More like land of hypocrisy
@pinkypunxy I hear you. Like I said before, I don't hate Eric and Dylan. And, I was bullied too. But I, like you, never once thought to go on a murderous rampage.
It is what bullying does to a person. He deserved more than that but he should never have done what he did. I cry for the boys, the parents of the boys, the kids and teachers in the school, the injured, the killed, the family of those injured and killed. Things like this just should not happen. Ever.
I feel bad for Dylan. Eric Harris was a clinical psychopath. Dylan was just a depressed bipolar personality. If he was involved with a better crowd and got help, he wouldn't have hurt anyone and he would be here today. Eric Harris was the worst thing that happened to him. Eric was a total sociopath. He was never bullied. He just wanted to kill people. Dylan on the other hand was actually bullied.
Carol Rezende No I don't read books from people that went to high school or were related in some way to the killers. Those are largely unreliable or exaggerated. I respect Sue Klebold but everyone else is full of shit. I read scientific studies and FBI reports and analysis from top experts in their respective fields that conclude that Eric was a textbook example of a psychopath and how Dylan was suffering from major depressive disorder, which you clearly can't see. Eric being 5'8 had zip to do with anything. I'm 5'7 and even I'm not "bullied" and all my friends are 6'0+. I'm not bragging but girls don't even care about my height, most of them are shorter anyways, like 5'2. So Eric probably got turned down because he was a fucking weirdo and everyone knew he had issues Here's some references: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/keeping-kids-safe/200905/columbine-bullying-and-the-mind-eric-harris www.policeone.com/active-shooter/articles/7094927-Looking-into-the-minds-of-Eric-Harris-and-Dylan-Klebold/ The articles talk about how Dylan was depressed and had aspirations, and how he would've been so much better off without that asshole Eric.
Eric harris and dylan klebold were bullied base from they're journals, even students witness them being bullied, even Brooks Brown seen them being bullied, even 1 of the jocks admit that he bullied eric and dylan.
Some might say it was what they call "A Madness In Two People" which is an extremely rare medical condition, but is indeed a mental disorder. Others say they were both depressed, one attempting treatment and one not. Some blame bullies. I just think that if someone looked close enough they would have seen something wrong. Every time I see pictures of them I just want to give them a cuddle because it seems that a little affection could have made a big difference here.
When i see them i feel sad and like i wanna go back in time and do something :S idk what but they needed serious help...cant explain really but help in some kind of way and i wish people could have noticed the signals but thats difficult i think people might just have seen them as weird...but there must have been something someone could have done :S Maybe i am wrong idk i just feel sad...sad about the victims, their families, E and D and their families :(
It was just start to finish horrific, starting with the victims and their families. Harris and Klebolds families are victims too, they also lost. It is why the USA needs gun control, no guns, no shootings.
What it means is that if the people who bullied Eric and Dylan had already graduated, then they had already graduated and that leaves a multitude of people who didn't pick on them in the school. And the revenge you talk about might not even happen at all, and even if it does happen, they might not even see it that way. The most likely outcome is that the people who bullied Eric and Dylan will go on to lead normal, productive lives without anyone knowing their names while Eric and Dylan don't.
@scorpianofthesun Well I've seen so many specials on Eric and Dylan, I know they were bullied like crazy, I just don't get why they didn't target the bullies and not the innocent kids who didn't do anything to them.
Well they did “target” the bullies. Everyone who represented the bullies. They saved few people they liked and there was a boy in the library who called them by their name and asked what they were doing etc. they remembered that he had always been nice to them so they let him live. He hadn’t bullied them nor ignored them.
This doesn't always happen when one is bullied, I was buillied, tormented etc I was forced to switch buses because the entire bus was bullying me.I got rocks thrown at me as I walked home form school etc; I never once thought about killing anyone.
there's confusion of how tall Eric was. Coroner has Eric at five foot eight and a half and Dylan at six foot two and a half. But Eric stated he was five foot ten and had missing scalp after death from his self inflicted gun shot so the coroner may not added the count for missing scalp but in the videos of Eric and Dylan, Eric was almost at Dylan's chin so I believe Eric was five ten.
terrorsquadlith. the bullies and their parents are culpable to an extent, yes. bullying itself is a type of psychopathy no one wants to address. then take into account the fact that school officials did nothing to stop the bullying and nothing to protect the targets. Another form of mental illness is to have knowledge of children being abused/assaulted/harrassed on a daily basis and do nothing. that's called being an accomplice. it's also a crime. the very job of the adults involved was to ensure the safety of all the children, not just the kids of powerful people in the community and to hell with the other kids. when something boils over, ah well, it was a coping problem by the perps, that's all, nothing more to see here..... I don't think so. there's a lot of responsibility not being appropriated and I wonder why. there's also many inconsistencies with the official story, few straight answers. Eric was allegedly raped by a member of the police department, perhaps more than once and not sure but may have involved other law enforcement officials. so, of course he had little trust in going to them for help. I don't condone what happened and wish none of this ever happened, but I can't overlook that this was preventable. perhaps the parents truly didn't know, but people at that school, officials and fellow students, did know! jokes were made about Eric being sexually assaulted, and NO ONE stepped up to help those kids. ah well, they were weird, bullying is normal, teachers never intercede unless your parents hold power in the community, it was all on eric, dylan and potentially others involved in the attack. psych meds played no part whatsoever, that's impossible. everything was lily white clean and normal and it had nothing to do with any other factors at all, ever, case slammed closed. move on. hope everyone is good with that explanation and please don't be shocked should this happen again. If I was aware of what was happening, I would immediately contact the parents of Eric and Dylan and tell them pull your kids out of that school, your sons aren't safe there and the school officials are aware of the problems and won't do anything. I'd also contact the other parents of bullied kids and tell them the same thing. that could have been a publicity nightmare that the community would have to address and perhaps a productive solution could have been obtained, but no. it's far easier to do nothing. it's always easier to do nothing. then scratch your head and lament how you can't comprehend such a violent outcome. all the while people in that school witnessed and took part in violence every day. I guess that's the uncomfortable part, no did anything to stop what was occurring and then couldn't stop what ultimately occurred.
@coby110798 the media provided them with a scapegoat to hide behind and they did so rather than excpet responsibiloity for their ignorance and stupidity
I have an unstable childhood because I moved away from my primary school friends who was being considered by parents that aren't as important as high school friends. However, I always have to meet new people and ultimately I can't fit myself well in the four year university, so now I decide to reenter a university which I previously finished in 2 years. Sure this time won't be that fast anymore.
@6adassChick Whats wrong with that? It makes her feel better.. What is she not supossed to leave her house? Shes trying to keep to her regular routine which is a good idea.
You can't always blame the parents.Its not always the parents fault; Adam lanza's father is asking "Why" as well.Imagine the hurt the shooter's parents go through, to know your own kid killed so many and then themselves.However some parents are to blame as they don't get help for their kids.
@scorpianofthesun families of Dylan and Eric. I've seen parents deal with a child committing suicide. For those of you who have never seen that, or don't know what it's like, trust me on this: it's something that you never want to see. And if you see it once, that's what you hope it'll be: once. For those who have dealt with this, you're not alone. But Eric and Dylan's parents, this was not just a suicide. This was a massacre and a suicide. The shock and devastation must be
@MissLadyDoolittle I find it hard to empathise how people like you can think so positively and I admire you for that. Maybe I'm egotistic, that's why I think of revenge all the time.
@pinkypunxy I hate what they did too, not the boys themselves. And I am too wondering how the parents, or really anybody else that were very close to these boys didn't notice anything.
But earlier in the Columbine years Eric was as small as five foot seven, remember they were teens and sprouted a lot in the few years but Dylan was always tall.
@6adassChick Have you ever been in total emotional shock? Reality doesn't sink in right away, and you cling to familiar routines to preserve any shred of normalcy. It looks pretty cold, yes, but neither you nor I know what was going on in that woman's mind or heart. She was probably just trying to keep herself sane.
Like many others, I thought that there had to have been something very wrong in those boys' homes for something like that to happen. I've only started to recently read about Columbine and, while I'm seeing things that both Dylan and Erics' parents could have done differently, there is nothing that I have seen so far that would lead me to blame the parents for what happened. They loved their kids, they were involved parents, their kids were busy with school, PT jobs, they had friends. The same thing can be said for the school, I just do not see how the environment at the school was so toxic that Eric and Dylan felt compelled to randomly slaughter their classmates. None of what happened made a bit of sense. Dylan and Eric were not victims of external forces, this evil came from within.
Eric & Dylan were most def victims of external forces, They were not born evil. When Eric was in NY the kids accepted him for who he was. he wrote the sweetest things in friends yearbook before moving. you could tell he was actually Sweet, loving, Appreciated people & seemed happy. The min. he went to Columbine he became a completely diff person. so hateful & evil. There's a Video of Dylan & Eric walking in the hallway laughing & talking. There was a group of "popular" kids & the min they passed them they looked down & stopped laughing & talking, Theyre vibe completely changed. Dylans early journal writings were very sweet, self aware & wanting love. Dylan was very personabl, helpful & known to make people laugh & had no problem speaking to anyone kids still rejected him. not condoning what they did its still fuck you forever they killed kids who didnt even bother them but they were most def bullied
There were external forces like the school culture based on discrimination and bullying but the main forces came from within. They both had personality disorders. Eric was a psychopath and Dylan a borderline. They intoxicated each other with their stored anger and Eric intoxicated Dylan's permeable and unstable personality which is typical in BPD with his own prejudices and absolute hate against society.
Um, no offence to those who are getting off on Eric and Dylan, but they are dead. I doubt you'd even look at them twice if they were alive and walked down the street, plus they, y'know, killed some people - they are not coming back, okay?
@KoreaRwkz I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I sympathize with kids who are bullied, I was bullied for years. I had regular stomachaches because I did not want to go to school. I have never attended a class reunion. But I never wanted to kill my tormentors as a result. The best revenge is to survive and live a happy life in spite of the past, and maybe even be a voice for other victims. These two DIED. They threw away their opportunity to truly change anything.
RIP Eric and Dylan :( We pray for your families and all the victims daily. On April 20 1999 there were 15 victims. Eric and Dylan were also victims.The parents had nothing to do with what happened on April 20 1999. Most of you should watch the movie " Bully" Eric and Dylan were not Gods but they were in pain. May all the families be able to move on and the pain lessens each and everyday .THOSE WHO WANT TO CALL ERIC AND DYLAN NAMES You just proved yourself to be a bully. Congratulations !
I have zero compassion for these parents. They failed. At least, though, Sue Klebold has the courage to come forward so I respect this. But the Harisses knew who their son was
@quasiphatpaul I think he meant that they would have attend College if they didn't do what they did. I would have loved to have seen what they did with computer games. It's too bad they did such a terrible act. They could have done so much with their lives.
I feel bad for their families. I did a report on the two boys and honestly, I think whether or not they tried to control Eric and Dylan, these guys were adament on doing what they did. There's nothing that could have stopped them. They were way too disturbed. And I think it's horrible that people tormented the families. They lost a child too, it was still their baby and they weren't always bad. They didn't come out worshiping Hitler. And this is something the families will have to live with.
Their parents missed the signs of their kids struggles and depression. The school failed them as well because if they was being bullied why didn't anyone step in and do anything before Dylan and Eric made such a disastrous decision?
Dylan’s mom said they never noticed anything, sadly. But for Eric he was on anti depressants so they must have known at least something. The parents would have been the ones that received the multiple police reports against Eric about his website where he threatened people...
The victims must of looked better after their faces and heads were blown off. I laugh how they stitched their faces back together for the open casket service. I am sure they looked better with their faces blown to pieces. My heroes Eric and Dylan
As much as everyone wants to completely blame the patents it was not them it was there kids! And even if they thought there kids were weird and a bit abnormal I'm sure they never considered there kids to be killers ! Unfortunately they should have seen some signs ! I think that if my son was arressted like they were I would definitely be keeping a close eye and checking for journals & searching his room as an parent who loves there child would! It's to sad! Between them being so bullied and ver
I'm reading these comments, and I ill say that I can understand a lot og what people are saying like, when someone is bullied why isn't anything done about it. Here is my question: if Eric and Dylan were showing so many red flags because of bullying, anger and depression, why does there have to be a huge massacre where innocent people are killed or injured, before we actually start saying, "Ho hum...maybe we should do something about this."
The hairdresser is totally disgusting. She broke confidentiality by blabbing to the press to get her 10 mins of fame. She couldn’t wait to ask her nosey questions so she could contact the press and tell them what was said. Disgusting woman. Totally unprofessional of her and atrocious behaviour.
How would the outcome be the same if they were bullied but didn't kill anyone who bullied them? Knowing what people mean when they talk about Columbine doesn't mean that they died for something. What did they die for? Fame? That's a pretty trivial thing to kill people over.
I think Eric was a nice person but all these outcasts feelings have gone in his mind,making him being a psychopathic person and feeling not accepted.I'm also an "outcast" but i feel good not being in this stupid groups of popular persons who just are FAKE.I rather be myself than being a follower.
I ain’t saying what they did was right but why not specifically go after the people that bullied them instead of random innocent students that had nothing to do with bullying.
There's nothing anyone could have done imo. It was a pressure cooker waiting to go off and these two judging by what I have seen were extremely abnormal . They chose to go all the way through with it including taking their own lives.
really pises me off everyone kicks up a stink about goths in high schools what about the big popular jocks,preps and cheerleaders who bullied students? oh no not the preciouspopular atheletes heaven forbid
