the real story behind Columbine
HandoutThe 1999 yearbook photos of Eric Harris,
mbt baratos, left, and Dylan Klebold, the gunmen from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., that left 13 dead and many others wounded that year. Here are some of his suggestions:Set limits on your child's privacy. Keep open communication. Know your child's friends, what he does, what websites he visits. If there is a preoccupation with weapons or violent scenarios in journals, he may need help from a counselor.Pay attention to school warnings. If the school contacts you with concerns about your child's violent stories or class presentations, he may be depressed or enraged and need help. These "red flags" have been noticed by teachers before school shootings,
mbt outlet, but parents rebuffed school officials.Eliminate easy access to guns at home.Recognize possible rehearsals of attacks. Some school shooters have done drawings, animations and videos or written stories in advance that depicted brutal acts.Stay alert to possible signs of future trouble. Private citizens have foiled rampage killings by youths. Among them: a clerk in a photo shop who noticed photos of a teenager with an arsenal of guns and someone who found a notebook with plans for a high school shooting in a parking lot. If you notice a possible threat, promptly notify the police.CNN screenshotPatrick Ireland, who was severely wounded in the Columbine shooting, was helped out of a school window by members of the FBI.By Greg Toppo, USA TODAYThey weren't goths or loners.The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver's Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren't in the "Trenchcoat Mafia," disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters. The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn't been bullied in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and "fags."MAPPING SCHOOL VIOLENCE: Major incidents since 1983LESSONS FROM COLUMBINE: More security and outreachPROGRAMS: How schools, parents, citizens help prevent violenceTheir rampage put schools on alert for "enemies lists" made by troubled students, but the enemies on their list had graduated from Columbine a year earlier. Contrary to early reports, Harris and Klebold weren't on antidepressant medication and didn't target jocks, blacks or Christians, police now say,
mbt, citing the killers' journals and witness accounts. That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened,
mbt outlet, the FBI says now.A decade after Harris and Klebold made Columbine a synonym for rage, new information including several books that analyze the tragedy through diaries, e mails, appointment books, videotape, police affidavits and interviews with witnesses, friends and survivors indicate that much of what the public has been told about the shootings is wrong.In fact, the pair's suicidal attack was planned as a grand if badly implemented terrorist bombing that quickly devolved into a 49 minute shooting rampage when the bombs Harris built fizzled.So whom did they hope to kill?What's left, after peeling away a decade of myths, is perhaps more comforting than the "good kids harassed into retaliation" narrative or perhaps not.It's a portrait of Harris and Klebold as a sort of In Cold Blood criminal duo a deeply disturbed,
mbt baratas, suicidal pair who over more than a year psyched each other up for an Oklahoma City style terrorist bombing, an apolitical, over the top revenge fantasy against years of snubs, slights and cruelties,
mbt zapatillas, real and imagined.Along the way, they saved money from after school jobs, took Advanced Placement classes, assembled a small arsenal and fooled everyone friends, parents, teachers, psychologists, cops and judges."These are not ordinary kids who were bullied into retaliation," psychologist Peter Langman writes in his new book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters. "These are not ordinary kids who played too many video games. These are not ordinary kids who just wanted to be famous. These are simply not ordinary kids. These are kids with serious psychological problems."Deceiving the adultsHarris, who conceived the attacks,
mbt baratas, was more than just troubled.Harris, a senior, read voraciously and got good grades when he tried, pleasing his teachers with dazzling prose then writing in his journal about killing thousands."I referred to him and I'm dating myself as the Eddie Haskel of Columbine High School," says Principal Frank DeAngelis, referring to the deceptively polite teen on the 1950s and '60s sitcom Leave it to Beaver. "He was the type of kid who, when he was in front of adults, he'd tell you what you wanted to hear."
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