In America right now, mass killings are hogging the headlines. One of the most recent involved a father who shot 5 children in a trailer-park followed by himself. Before that a large group of immigrants were attacked and shot. This sort of carnage though is set to continue as James Kunstler's Long Emergency takes root on American soil. The analysis below shows that while sometimes we can understand the circumstances of a killer; the rationale, the hate, there are not always reasons for why people do what they do. Their actions, as far as they are concerned, are not real, because they are not living in reality.
April 6, 2009 | Dave Cullen's "Columbine" is a chilling page-turner, a striking accomplishment given that Cullen's likely readers almost certainly know how the tragic story ends. Twelve students and one beloved teacher died at the suburban Denver high school on April 20, 1999, the worst school shooting rampage until two years ago, when Cho Seung-Hui slaughtered 32 classmates at Virginia Tech.
I know more about the Columbine story than most of Cullen's audience: I was Cullen's editor at Salon 10 years ago, on that awful day when the cable networks told us teenagers were dying in Littleton, and he told me over the phone he'd head there immediately. Little did either of us know then that he'd still be at Columbine a decade later.
Eric's was what you would expect. It's "hate hate hate." It's all Eric. It sounds like a murderer in the works. Dylan's is — he's literally talking about love on almost every page, and he's growing up. |
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