Why we keep having school shootings

[DevonRex]

15. No, it really was not refuted. Not well or decisively.

I live here. Lived through it. Live a few miles away. Know kids who were barricaded in various parts of the school on that day and the lead FBI man on the scene, whose son was in the building and who played soccer with my son.

What we got afterwards was a lot of people denying any and all responsibility. Period. A lot of people saying there was nothing more they could have done. There are 2 points I'd like to make. Dylan had been bullied. He was very tall and thin. Going through an awkward stage that lasted longer than most kids. He was ostracized. Which is a form of bullying in itself. This left him open to anyone who would pay him any attention.

Enter Eric Harris. The kid who knows how to manipulate. It's no coincidence that the first time Dylan ever got into trouble was after Eric moved to Colorado. And because Dylan had no other friends at Columbine, he kept seeing Eric even after that, keeping it a secret from his parents. Ultimately this meant that Dylan was in Eric's control, with no input at all in the situation from his parents.

There was one huge mistake made by a teacher. She didn't give Mrs Klebold a copy of a violent story that Dylan had written. It might have given some insight into how troubled he was. It might have been a cry for help, a reason to start some different dialogue. Just maybe. Maybe he would have admitted the whole damned thing. Who knows now. We will never know. It seems that just once somebody at that school could have cared enough about Dylan to make an effort. Just once. If not to include him in anything, then just to say, hey, this is beyond the acceptable norm and maybe he needs help. And then just maybe all those kids would be alive, and all the injured kids would be walking and not still having nightmares every night.

Anyway, that's my two cents.