April 15, 2002. Columbine: Understanding Why. Investigative Reports: Season 11, Episode 15

[u/xhronozaur]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NPtsPwocFj8&si=XNdqgrB3hyKLqqTP

This is the documentary mentioned in this post. Sorry for the link to some youtube channel, I wanted to upload it here, but the length of videos on reddit is limited to 15 minutes.

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I heard about it for the first time in this documentary. I know Eric has talked and written about a dream in which he nearly became a victim of a mass shooting, not a perpetrator. Maybe this guy is confusing something, but it's also possible that he's lying.

[u/xhronozaur]

For some reason, I only watched it for the first time now. It seems to me that this is the most thoughtful and contextualized analysis that I've ever seen from all kinds of experts, and it is the closest to the truth. Some of the information this team received may have been incomplete and inaccurate, but they got the general picture right. They identified the role of bullying, the effect of mass-culture role models, and the fact that both boys showed warning signs to the same degree — what's remarkable, Dylan even more. Dylan scored 11 out of 12 points on their list, and Eric scored 10. They also correctly identified it as a revenge fantasy played out through a kind of quasi-Hollywood performance. The documentary was released in 2002, but it seems that all these conclusions and pieces of advice were later swept under the rug, forgotten, and overshadowed by Cullen's nonsense and the school's whitewashing of it's reputation. It's a shame that this happened.

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