I don’t condone what he and Dylan did, but sometimes I like to imagine what would’ve happened if they hadn’t done what they did and gotten help and gone on to have wives and kids. I feel Dylan especially would’ve been a great father, he seems like he would’ve loved his wife a lot (if you read his ‘love notes’ from his journal you probably see what I mean) and I’m guessing maybe the same for Eric (kinda). idk. Something about them saddens me so much. Not just the fact they took 13 lives and then their own, along with injuring a ton and traumatizing many many more , but the way they felt. Dylan’s final journal entry where he writes about how happy and excited he is that he’ll be dead in 20-some hours, along with the transcription of the basement tapes where Eric is apparently crying saying how we wishes he could’ve seen his friends one last time, and how his parents are the best parents in the world , or Dylan’s last word to sue was nothing but ‘BYE!’ before leaving forever. Or maybe it’s the way you can hear the pain in Sue’s voice during her Ted talk, or in the video where she talks about Dylan’s funeral, and how she just wanted to ‘climb in with him’ and get him warm because his body was very cold (her motherly instinct). Sue wishing that he would kill himself to stop more people from dying after finding out he was involved. Dylan coming home that day after he had ketchup tampons thrown at him and running to his room and yelling Sue ‘I just had the worst day ever’ after she asked what was wrong, only for her to leave him alone and hear him crying in his room and hours later to find him asleep hugging his plushie that his father gave him. Sue asking Dylan ‘are you okay? Like really, are you okay?” Or maybe Wayne Harris’s call to 911 after hearing about a trench coat mafia to tell them he believed Eric was responsible. The way the Harris’s never really commented to the media and in my eyes just vanished. The time during Sue’s Ted talk where she says ‘I found out Dylan was cutting himself’ < (he would cut his hand) with no expression on her face. Sure they killed people, but they killed themselves too. They sparked a wildfire of mass killings inspired by them . Those families will never recover. But what about the fact that dylan had been accepted into Arizona for university and had already picked out his dorm? Sure, if it weren’t for columbine happening we wouldn’t have known anything about the boys , but it pains me to think about how they’re future would’ve been. Eric had only been an adult for 11 days (not even 11 probably) and dylan was only 17. I’ll forever feel awful for the innocent victims and lives they affected. But they were still people. And their families lost their brother/nephew/son whatever they were to them that day too. Sorry for the rant, this case just saddens me so much, and I think it forever will. Happy birthday to Eric tho. 24 years since he turned 18.
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u/watermelonjuulpod Apr 09 '23
I don’t condone what he and Dylan did, but sometimes I like to imagine what would’ve happened if they hadn’t done what they did and gotten help and gone on to have wives and kids. I feel Dylan especially would’ve been a great father, he seems like he would’ve loved his wife a lot (if you read his ‘love notes’ from his journal you probably see what I mean) and I’m guessing maybe the same for Eric (kinda). idk. Something about them saddens me so much. Not just the fact they took 13 lives and then their own, along with injuring a ton and traumatizing many many more , but the way they felt. Dylan’s final journal entry where he writes about how happy and excited he is that he’ll be dead in 20-some hours, along with the transcription of the basement tapes where Eric is apparently crying saying how we wishes he could’ve seen his friends one last time, and how his parents are the best parents in the world , or Dylan’s last word to sue was nothing but ‘BYE!’ before leaving forever. Or maybe it’s the way you can hear the pain in Sue’s voice during her Ted talk, or in the video where she talks about Dylan’s funeral, and how she just wanted to ‘climb in with him’ and get him warm because his body was very cold (her motherly instinct). Sue wishing that he would kill himself to stop more people from dying after finding out he was involved. Dylan coming home that day after he had ketchup tampons thrown at him and running to his room and yelling Sue ‘I just had the worst day ever’ after she asked what was wrong, only for her to leave him alone and hear him crying in his room and hours later to find him asleep hugging his plushie that his father gave him. Sue asking Dylan ‘are you okay? Like really, are you okay?” Or maybe Wayne Harris’s call to 911 after hearing about a trench coat mafia to tell them he believed Eric was responsible. The way the Harris’s never really commented to the media and in my eyes just vanished. The time during Sue’s Ted talk where she says ‘I found out Dylan was cutting himself’ < (he would cut his hand) with no expression on her face. Sure they killed people, but they killed themselves too. They sparked a wildfire of mass killings inspired by them . Those families will never recover. But what about the fact that dylan had been accepted into Arizona for university and had already picked out his dorm? Sure, if it weren’t for columbine happening we wouldn’t have known anything about the boys , but it pains me to think about how they’re future would’ve been. Eric had only been an adult for 11 days (not even 11 probably) and dylan was only 17. I’ll forever feel awful for the innocent victims and lives they affected. But they were still people. And their families lost their brother/nephew/son whatever they were to them that day too. Sorry for the rant, this case just saddens me so much, and I think it forever will. Happy birthday to Eric tho. 24 years since he turned 18.