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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were intelligent students who showed normal teenager behaviour. (reference). In 1998 they started experimenting with weapons and bombs. Their parents, Tom & Sue Klebold and Wayne & Kathy Harris were nearly oblivious to their children’s wicked ideals. A few months before the massacre began, Dylan Klebold wrote a macabre essay that was fixated on the thought of death, guns, and killing. The parents were informed about the disturbing essay and immediately tried to intervene and help their child. Meanwhile, Eric Harris’s parents sent their child to a psychiatrist where he was prescribed antidepressants. He took the antidepressant’s regularly, as stated by his parents, but his irritable and violent attitude never changed.
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