I always wondered why Eric’s parents made him feel so sheltered in my opinion when Eric threw a snowball at Brooks and also when Eric got mad at Dylan and just yelled at him and they just think oh it’s nothing

Just minimizing and hoping it’s a phase he’ll grow out of without causing them too many public scenes – instead of admitting they had an angry, defiant problem child which was beyond their control to manage with the usual punishments.  They dealt with him by pawning him off on others to ‘fix’ him for them instead of admitting that they were part of the problem with the problem child. 

Do you think Dylan’s love for his crush was real or do you think he was kind of being naive about the whole thing?

Dylan was infatuated with a girl he didn’t know at all and she didn’t know he even existed.. or so it has been said.  Having never been in a real relationship before, he was naive and idealistically in love with a Muse and to which he upheld a perfect, fantasy perception and concept of “love”.  The images of this “love” which he sustained in his mind when he thought of her and of them together elicited happiness for him in tiny fleeting moments. The feeling of love, having a love and being with a love was what kept him going. It went beyond having a reality-based relationship with a real girl.  Eventually, this concept of True Love was a beacon of light and hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel or in his case, an infinite, endless, highway of sadness and lonely damnation.  This everlasting love awaited him once this journey was done.  It was romantic love and not real love, with a real girl,  but it was Love enough for him.

did eric’s parents ever see in person what his face looked like after his suicide?

Sue does not mention in her book that they viewed/identified Dylan’s body at the morgue. They only saw Dylan for an open casket funeral.  She also doesn’t seem to mention that Jeffco showed her photos of the boys lying dead in the library after having shown the Klebolds the evidence and tapes, etc. I would think she would’ve mentioned her reaction to seeing those photos.   Eric’s parents did not have a funeral service and his parents did not come the funeral home to discuss what would happen with their dead son. Instead, they gave a private investigator the power of attorney to make the decisions on their behalf.  So, no, they did not see his body at all after the event. However, in May 2002, when the National Enquirer tabloid came out with the photos of E & D’s bodies in the library, the Harris’ may have seen copies at the checkout stand of their local grocery store.  Of course, that doesn’t mean they purchased a copy or leafed through it quickly out of curiosity. Don’t think Kathy would ever since she’d be reduced to a puddle of tears on the floor, and I can’t imagine Wayne wanting to see it either. I can’t imagine they would want to know. I doubt they ever wanted to see his body as it was easier to brush it under the carpet and move on stoically. 

Do you think Dave Cullen’s book is worth reading? I have it in pdf but I’m afraid to waste my time… :xxx

Well, if you have the pdf (which, hopefully, you didn’t purchase), I think it’s worth skimming through because then you will fully understand the problematic parts of the book.  You will be able to have that ‘aha wtf!?!’ moment every time you read something that is completely off about the boys. (In fact, there should be a drinking game for that.. 😉 )Having experience in reading Cullen’s crap, you’ll be better able to speak about it with people and spread the word as to what is wrong with the book.  Mind you, not every single thing about the book was bad though.  There are parts of the book where he paints a really good picture of what Littleton is like.  It reads like descriptive fiction – of which, a good chunk of it is his own belief system that he stamps over the actual facts.  I shared my pro/cons about the book here.  

It’s too bad you don’t have the actual book because when you’re done having a look at it, it makes GREAT kindling for your autumnal fireplace. 😉

I dont know if this happens to other people or just myself but sometimes when I search through tags on mobile, it glitches and I cant seem to find anything in a blogs tag when I know its there. I can search the same thing while im on my laptop and i’ll be able to find what im looking for. Maybe thats the case for some of your followers, miss e-c? 😏

Hmm..I’d try restarting your phone, fully closing out of your app and restarting everything.  See if that fixes the glitches when using the magnifying glass search features.  🙂Even if it’s still an issue for people – after trying all that, please understand that I’m just not going to keep rehashing answers to repeat questions or doing the searching for people and linking them.  At 136 messages in my inbox, people are either going to end up getting a “Please use the E-C Search” (meaning it was already answered; go look for it) or just silence, zip, nada, no response. 😏

Do u think that if Chloe ever wanted 2 chat up Brooks again that he would react with anger?

Chloe mentioned she was grossed out by the whole thing and where it devolved to, and she was glad that I’d made that post about him to spread an awareness to other young girls about his potential creepy ways.  He’d just block her and also the majority of other young chicks attempting to get his attention. But that’s assuming he’d learned his lesson and I don’t think he fully has. He’s still doing it to a lesser degree (chatting up young, unknown chicks) that was how I found out about his impending fatherhood. 

Do you think if Columbine didn’t happen then Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook wouldn’t have happened either. I know it sometimes has to do with bullying and mental illness which I think all of them faced. But I know Virginia Tech was inspired by Columbine and Sandy Hook possibly the same.

I think Columbine was a fairly significant influence in playing a part in those two events occurring. Once Columbine happened it was like a kind of unspoken permission and calling to others who felt marginalized and estranged from society to instigate their own personal, bloody skirmish on the world.  I think Columbine was probably about ¼ of an influence for Cho’s attack on Virginia Tech and 1/8 (if that) for Adam Lanza and Sandy Hook.  Adam Lanza didn’t really admire Eric and Dylan at all or see them as martyrs and heroes as Cho did. Lanza was actually kind of disdainful of Columbine compared to the overall mass/school shooters throughout the years via the data he collected on a detailed spreadsheet. So, I’d say he was more inspired by the overall concept of all mass shooters and he desired to make his own anti-societal-statement about the world and join their ranks in death.  Columbine isn’t always the main instigating/inspiring reason for other mass shooters but there is usually some small sort of “2-7 Degrees of” mentality in their signature of sorts that leads back to Columbine in some way.   I suppose you could say in general, that Columbine is kind of the “Remember the Alamo!” metaphor, symbolic ‘fuck the world!’ battle cry for mass shooters.