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Watching this, this kid's mother keeps saying how she missed "signs" from him, including the boys experimenting with a pipe bomb and then a 10-page list of threats found online, and the mother dug through his room when he was out and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

Before I watched 20/20 with Sue Klebold, I read pretty much everything on Columbine info

It is my understanding that it was Eric Harris that had the website, not Dylan Klebold.

It is also my understanding that the weapons were obtained MAYBE 6 months before the massacre. That would have made it October 1998, his senior year of high school. The mom didn't go through his room after his junior year.

I still think it was Harris that had most of the bomb ingredients in his basement bedroom. Obviously his parents didn't invade his privacy either.

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Posted by tylerdurden24

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Posted on 2/13/16 at 7:58 pm to Red Stick Tigress

Go read "Columbine" by Dave Cullen. It is the most comprehensive study and examination of the entire event, from the early warning signs to the aftermath.

Klebold was basically a depressed teenager that had the misfortune of befriending a psychopath like Harris. Klebold needed someone to take cues from and Harris was by all accounts incredibly charsimatic (as are most psychopathic individuals). Harris's plans to basically kill everyone on Earth fed right into Klebold's depression.

If there's anything his mom could have done, it would have been to get him into serious therapy asap or move. Obviously not something you just do to/for your kid, though, without some serious inclination for what's going on. Would be really interested to hear from Harris's dad (from what I recall reading, he was a staunch ex-military guy).

This post was edited on 2/13/16 at 7:59 pm

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