There are a lot more R&V followers out there than you would think. You can criticize psychiatry without being a Scientologist. 6. Sunday, April 25, 1999; Page A8. Any pix of the monster creators? He was also very close friends with the killers. The term "psychopath" was in academic use by the early 1910s, and the definitive work on psychopathy was published in 1941. Plus the drug industry makes a profit. . In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered . This thread is going to hell in jig time if it turns into the all-too-familiar "they were running up and down the aisles and that caused Columbine!!!" Yes, it's really terrible when there is the free-flow of information and ideas, isn't it? Dylan Klebold was suicidal for several years before Columbine. I couldn't do that to my family and I admit that I would never have the guts. What have I raised? On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stormed into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and murdered 13 people before killing themselves. Her son's name became famous when in 1999 he became one of two direct perpetrators of the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. Nothing taken care of that I needed him to do (like take care of the cats). If they had even one shred of decency they would have taken full responsibility for creating and shaping and not monitoring these monsters. Agreed that Klebold's parents seem like total cunts, delusional in their whiny victim mentality. I don't really know what to say about the parents. Jefferson County Public Schools officials have consistently denied that bullying was tolerated or that athletes received special treatment. School officials, law enforcement, and the adult community learned a lot after Columbine and are doing a better job of detecting trouble. The giant whine of "I did my beeeeest!" Maybe I'm just feeling too knowledgeable having been re-reading Steve Pinker's "How The Mind Works" recently. ", [quote]Eric: "Morris, Nate, if you guys live, I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room.". Brian Rohrbough, father of victim Daniel Rohrbough, said he was outraged that the Klebolds likened the day of the shootings to a natural disaster in the interview with Brooks. They crowned a queen, they crowned a king. I must say, that rings true to me Id personally say it was because I was so self-sufficient and trustworthy as a child that my parents had no idea when I was going through (relative) difficulty in adolescence. His mom was trying to find the best fit for him, but I suspect it ended up being more difficult for him), and both enjoyed violent video games. How do you teach someone to have emotions or empathy? I guess it's my generation. They often have an interest in guns and weapons, with easy access to firearms, and have often repeatedly made clear their violent intentions to others (usually peers). "Mrs. Klebold had her hair done the day after the shooting". On April 20, 1999, when Sue Klebold heard about a shooting incident at Columbine High School, her thoughts immediately turned to her 17-year-old son, Dylan, who was a senior there. The world was shocked and sickened on April 20, 1991, when crazed students Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, slaughtered 12 students and one teacher at Colorado's Columbine High School. Attention was paid. When you think about it, in his journals he didn't have too much positive to say across the board. ", Eric: "Morris, Nate, if you guys live, I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room.". They had heard the gunmen may have been part of the Trench Coat Mafia, a loose group of students, including their son, who said athletes at Columbine bullied them. The second of the Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold was a "born genius" who, despite a sensitive disposition, experienced explosions of rage (most often brought on by failure or humiliation,) suicidal tendencies, a disdain for the "zombie"-like human race, and a suggestibility upon which the psychopathic . of course, tom has never come out and publicly spoken the way sue has; from my personal observation he seems to be a little more torn up about it than she. Okay, well, first of all, gifted programs don't monitor shit. Dylan Klebold (Dylan Bennet Klebold) was born on 11 September, 1981 in Lakewood, Colorado, United States, is a 20th century American mass murderers. Brookscolumn did not say when and where the interview took place. [quote]I think he made only one phone call to a recruiter. No scientist knows this absolutely. These incidents happen because the majority of people choose to look the other way if a kid seems a little off. Tom had a huge hobby for fixing up BMW's. He had friends, but felt as if he were a burden; he wanted love, but the girl he was interested in didnt know he existed. What a twat. And now she won't show it. I kind of admire that. I don't think it's fair to either demonize or absolve them, but from studies of psychopathy, even the best parenting can't make that be turned off. The next deadliest school shooting (based on fatalities) was the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, with 27 fatalities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had openly admired Adolf Hitler. On April 20, 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. The half-Jewish Dylan Klebold is more of a cipher. Maybe he needs to go home. The couple said they felt under siege after the shooting and never had a chance to grieve for their son. What happened isn't their fault. What is something of a mystery to me is why things reached the point they did. They haff come here to haff a nice dinner und a nice time. To me its really hard to determine the quality of a relationship based on how teenagers feel about it. There's a blurb on the back flap comparing the book to Helter Skelter and In Cold Blood, and I thought that was just kind of typical PR purple mumbo-jumbo. I don't think I can categorize Dylan's relationship with his parents as bad or good, because Dylan was incredibly disturbed teen and clearly had a skewed perception of reality. Sue acknowledges that before Columbine, she would have reacted to news of some horrific act by wondering what that persons parents must have been like to allow someone to turn out like that. That's why Dylan got one for Christmas 99, it was Tom's way of finding something to bond with with Dylan. On Dylan's part, I think that in January 1999, he was depressed and preparing to die - distancing himself from those he loved, so that it would be easier for him to carry out the attack. It's far more complicated than a matter of discipline. It would be comforting to think otherwise. As much as it sucked I knew deep down that it was just a stage and that it wasn't real. Tom and I failed to recognize these conditions and to curtail the influences violent entertainment, his friendship with Eric that exacerbated them. This girl went on screaming for full minutes at a time - nobody came out of the house and told her to be quiet. No one could control him. And now she won't show it. Just three days before the shooting, he went to prom with a friend. Eric: "Yea Everyone I love, I'm really sorry about all this. Attacks seem planned in advance, with the shooter expecting to be killed or planning to commit suicide in conjunction with the attack. Sue Klebold with son Dylan in 1985. Credit: Sue Klebold via Penguin/Random House Tall, slim and graceful (her younger son was a gangly 193 centimetres tall), she is given to direct eye contact . Sue and her husband were vehemently opposed, but Dylan still asked for a gun for Christmas his final year. Dylan's mother, Sue Klebold, confirmed to radio host Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" Tuesday that she is Jewish, and her now ex-husband, Dylan Klebold's father, is Lutheran, and said her son . People can be fooled. The narrator seemed to revel in the graphic violence he was depicting, but it was the final passage that was particularly disturbing, where Dylan conveyed unabashed awe and . I seem to remember them being called "fag.". I was just messing with you all a little bit in my other posts. Betty Shoels, Isaiah's aunt, said that "her 18-year-old nephew was a fun-loving athlete who was always smiling, despite feeling out of place as one of the school's few African-American students." . With these many, many factors in mind, I turn to A Mothers Reckoning. FULL DOCO - PT 2 OF 3, 2. LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) _ Columbine High School gunman Dylan Klebold was a follower, not a leader, who went astray after he met Eric Harris, friends say. "How do you teach someone to have emotions or empathy?". In this difficult, jarring talk, Klebold explores the intersection between mental health and violence . "some manipulate, like my parents.". Eric is filming. Stop doing that." ", Dylan: "They gave me my fucking life. The oblivious parents in Target or sitting inside their houses listening to their kids having a meltdown and completely ignoring it. I honestly do believe (and so does mom) that his brain has been rewired primarily by a head injury he sustained when he was just toddling. German-American restaurant owner: "You vill not be a mass murderer!" r54 is right. . I found this thred on accident and had to comment. In the April 24 column, Brooks had paraphrased an article in the online publication Slate that said Harris and Klebold yearned to become the most prolific mass murders in history. Theres to me a level of skepticism we have usually of course with the scraps of info we had, but also the slight weirdness/more to it/unreliability when it came down to this particular topic, Find it interesting Tom would say he was Dylans best friend. Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold, poses for a portrait on Feb. 23, 2016. As the mother of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold prepares to speak out in her first interview since the gruesome 1999 shooting massacre, a survivor of the attacks has . Wayne worked as a transport pilot for the United States Air Force, while . Planning? 18 year old son of Wayne Nelson Harris and Katherine (Kathy) Ann [Pool] Harris. It was obvious that the attack had been in the works for a long time, and the plan carefully thought out. There are several theories but there is not one definition. So I'm gone. [quote]I can't believe Oprah canceled her Columbine show today. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School with shotguns, automatic weapons, and homemade pipe . "He said, 'One of the boys my son shot said Dylan was a nice kid,' " Berg says. Who is "limiting" the discussion to the brain? Eric's dad answered a phone call from Green Mountain Guns. Jesus, what a loathsome pair of people. Subject: Re: The Klebolds are DIVORCED Fri Feb 12, 2016 11:17 pm. Yaron Steinbuch. Focus on the mental. We are not there yet. You shouldn't attack people for the actions of their offspring. Other way around. . Both Adam and Dylan seemed to have good relationships with their moms (though Adam actually ended up killing his mother the day of the shooting), both struggled in school (Adam actually switched schools a few times. I think it is really interesting to think about the many things that lead someone to commit a school shooting. (21 at the time). Of course there is no formula for determining whether someone will turn out to be a school shooter, but I definitely agree with the sentiment that it is important to look at how these things happen. He overslept and missed a class and was sleeping when I got home. I'm glad Oprah isn't going to help this man promote his book. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at the suburban Denver school on April 20, 1999, killing 13 people before taking their own lives. Getty, AP, AP, AFP/Getty. Without one factor (their brains) or the other (the guns), this wouldn't have happened the way it did, but I don't see the point of dismissing/elevating one over the other. Their teenage son, along with his classmate Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. School shooters often show little attachment to their school. [quote]He had been in a gifted child program, and you'd think they'd have some type of monitoring since kids who are that advanced frequently have problems.
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