Personal Narrative On Judgment Day
Why did they do it? Could it have been prevented? For something like columbine to happen there has to be something mentally wrong with the people who did it. You don’t just wake up on a sunny day and say hey let's go shoot up a school. I would say it takes at least a year of planning to plan something of that size. Many times before the actual day of “judgement day” as they called it dylan and eric would be caught stealing and having dangerous weapons by police, teachers, and their own parents. I really don't know how much trouble someone has to get into before they figure out that they are not going to change and only worse things can happen before they get into big trouble, because they never really got into just a lot of trouble like jail time they always got out of it and i think the longest they were grounded was for a month.
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There is no definite reason why the two committed such a terrible act but i definitely think it could have been prevented if the boys were taken more seriously.
Most of the time when someone is depressed you don’t see homicide. “Everything about Dylan screamed depressive - an extreme case, self - medicating with alcohol. The problem was how that led to murder. Dylans journal read like that of a boy on the road to suicide, not homicide” (cullen 187). I think what depressed dylan was between his friends leaving him for girls and getting grounded by his parents for a month and all the students in the white hats which they hated and particularly went after on that day “ Get anyone with white hats” (cullen 179). Dylan tried to lessen his pain by a number of ways he tried alcohol, he even had the nickname vodka, his favorite alcohol. He picked on kids because he thought that was the easiest way to help his pain. “Loneliness was the crux of the problem, but it ran deeper than just finding a friend. Dylan felt cut off from humanity (cullen 174).
Dylans journals were filled with love, and how he wanted to be with someone as opposed to eric's where his websites where filled with the word hate telling how much he hated everything.
The only thing eric loved was making fun of stupid people doing stupid things and natural selection. Eric was a psychopath. “Insanity was marked by mental confusion. Eric harris expressed cold, rational calculations. Fuselier ticked off eric's personality traits: charming, callous, cunning, manipulative, comically grandiose, and egocentric, with a appalling failure of empathy. It was like reciting the psychopathy checklist” (cullen 239). Eric killed for two reasons to demonstrate his superiority and to enjoy it. I really think that eric could have been stopped if the police would have taken the brown’s concerns would have been thoroughly investigated by the police when they filed their complaints about his website, and the was more than plenty of evidence to suggest that he was building pipe bombs. The police had a search warrant for eric's home but for some reason it never made it before a judge, and if it would have columbine may have never
happened.
It's hard to say what made these two people click to commit such a terrible act of violence, that they knew no doubt would take their life. But i thinks it fair to say that between all of the disappointments from friends that left them for girls and students in the white hats who got treated better than the rest of the students. They were also mad about the incident in january where they got arrested for breaking into the white van and stealing stuff and wanted revenge for that. “ My wrath for january's incident will be godlike. Not to mention our revenge in the commons” (cullen 256). For eric and dylan this is what would ultimately make up their minds on this massacre, it was going to happen anyways but the incident just sped up the attack.
Between dylan's depression and eric being a classified psychopath disaster was bound to happen, they just had so personal motives that made them want to get revenge, that something was going to happen unless someone stopped them. The police, teachers, and their own parents had plenty of opportunities to see that there was something wrong with the two guys and stop them. If they would have been punished more harshly by police and parents, and had a eye kept on them after his dad found erics pipebomb and getting arrested for breaking into the van. I think the biggest thing is that the police should have gotten a search warrant when they were informed on eric's website, which proved he was building pipe bombs instead of ignoring it, they could have been stopped. I think it is important to take parents complaints seriously because they know more about the kids than police and know what they might be cable of, so my advice is to take warnings serious especially if there's a good chance someone is building dangerous weapons. It could have saved many lives that day.
There is no definite reason why the two committed such a terrible act but i definitely think it could have been prevented if the boys were taken more seriously.
Most of the time when someone is depressed you don’t see homicide. “Everything about Dylan screamed depressive - an extreme case, self - medicating with alcohol. The problem was how that led to murder. Dylans journal read like that of a boy on the road to suicide, not homicide” (cullen 187). I think what depressed dylan was between his friends leaving him for girls and getting grounded by his parents for a month and all the students in the white hats which they hated and particularly went after on that day “ Get anyone with white hats” (cullen 179). Dylan tried to lessen his pain by a number of ways he tried alcohol, he even had the nickname vodka, his favorite alcohol. He picked on kids because he thought that was the easiest way to help his pain. “Loneliness was the crux of the problem, but it ran deeper than just finding a friend. Dylan felt cut off from humanity (cullen 174).
Dylans journals were filled with love, and how he wanted to be with someone as opposed to eric's where his websites where filled with the word hate telling how much he hated everything.
The only thing eric loved was making fun of stupid people doing stupid things and natural selection. Eric was a psychopath. “Insanity was marked by mental confusion. Eric harris expressed cold, rational calculations. Fuselier ticked off eric's personality traits: charming, callous, cunning, manipulative, comically grandiose, and egocentric, with a appalling failure of empathy. It was like reciting the psychopathy checklist” (cullen 239). Eric killed for two reasons to demonstrate his superiority and to enjoy it. I really think that eric could have been stopped if the police would have taken the brown’s concerns would have been thoroughly investigated by the police when they filed their complaints about his website, and the was more than plenty of evidence to suggest that he was building pipe bombs. The police had a search warrant for eric's home but for some reason it never made it before a judge, and if it would have columbine may have never
happened.
It's hard to say what made these two people click to commit such a terrible act of violence, that they knew no doubt would take their life. But i thinks it fair to say that between all of the disappointments from friends that left them for girls and students in the white hats who got treated better than the rest of the students. They were also mad about the incident in january where they got arrested for breaking into the white van and stealing stuff and wanted revenge for that. “ My wrath for january's incident will be godlike. Not to mention our revenge in the commons” (cullen 256). For eric and dylan this is what would ultimately make up their minds on this massacre, it was going to happen anyways but the incident just sped up the attack.
Between dylan's depression and eric being a classified psychopath disaster was bound to happen, they just had so personal motives that made them want to get revenge, that something was going to happen unless someone stopped them. The police, teachers, and their own parents had plenty of opportunities to see that there was something wrong with the two guys and stop them. If they would have been punished more harshly by police and parents, and had a eye kept on them after his dad found erics pipebomb and getting arrested for breaking into the van. I think the biggest thing is that the police should have gotten a search warrant when they were informed on eric's website, which proved he was building pipe bombs instead of ignoring it, they could have been stopped. I think it is important to take parents complaints seriously because they know more about the kids than police and know what they might be cable of, so my advice is to take warnings serious especially if there's a good chance someone is building dangerous weapons. It could have saved many lives that day.