The massacre in Columbine high school ten years ago is one of the most traumatizing and horrifying events in the history. The release of Columbine by Dave Cullen suddenly reminded me of the horrors that happened ten years ago, all of which I tried to forget but couldn’t.
When I hear anything about Columbine, my brain automatically goes into panic attack and I’m suddenly overwhelmed with fear as if everything is going to happen all over again. It’s a very sensitive topic, very unnerving to justify anything or to look at Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as people. It’s difficult for me not to get angry and sad and terrified at the mention of their names, like they are the embodiment of everything that’s wrong about a human being.
But Dave Cullen apparently cannot get over the issue and all the speculations about the real reasons of the two for their killing spree and suicides. Columbine is a clear-cut approach to the event that is the Columbine massacre. It even goes too deep as to try and go inside the minds of the killers themselves, intent to discover their real reason for randomly killing students.
The sad thing though is that no matter what the reason is, I don’t think anything can be justified by some illness or be blamed by some serious psychological condition. People are still going to remember the even for what it is, which is a ruthless killings of innocent children by two psychopaths. Whether Dave Cullen found out what he was looking for when he wrote Columbine is for the public to find out, but no matter what it is, I don’t think putting a label to it will change people’s emotions towards it.
Columbine by Dave Cullen - A Book Review
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