I think you are right. Also, do other FReepers out there think that teenagers should be kept on a short leash? From what I have gathered, Harris and Klebold did as they pleased. It’s like the Charlie Brown cartoons where the adults are a strange voice in the background. I don’t know the Klebold mother, but if I had to guess she paid her son very little attention and really did know nothing about what he was up to because she chose not to know.
Here’s an article about Klebold and Harris that another FReeper had posted a year or two back that was interesting:
The Depressive and the Psychopath
http://www.slate.com/id/2099203/
. I wanted and enjoyed my two...
.. and their daily existence and emotional well being were important to my husband and I.
We were 24/7 with them....
...and God was central to our child rearing....social activities....etc.
Now they are grown.... and we continue to maintain good contact with them, love and respect.
The psychiatrists can't help speculating what might have happened if Columbine had never happened. Klebold, they agree, would never have pulled off Columbine without Harris. He might have gotten caught for some petty crime, gotten help in the process, and conceivably could have gone on to live a normal life.
Their view of Harris is more reassuring, in a certain way. Harris was not a wayward boy who could have been rescued. Harris, they believe, was irretrievable. He was a brilliant killer without a conscience, searching for the most diabolical scheme imaginable. If he had lived to adulthood and developed his murderous skills for many more years, there is no telling what he could have done. His death at Columbine may have stopped him from doing something even worse.
The author of this article wrote a pretty good book about Columbine also. There was a slight liberal tinge, but it was mostly that clueless about real American kind of tinge not the real snarkly I hate America kind. The book had pretty good content, I think it was called Columbine. As a psychologist whose worked within the criminal justice system I have to say it was one of the better ones I have read. It really takes the media to task for their role in spreading lies/myths about Columbine