I’ve seen some people say Dylan wasn’t homicidal and that he was “tricked” by Eric. Do you think Dylan was homicidal and suicidal, or only suicidal?

How exactly is it that Dylan would’ve been tricked by Eric?   At the end of the day, Dylan shot and killed alongside Eric. Dylan didn’t get sick to his stomach nor vomit on sight had he been coerced to take lives. There are no witnesses that mentioned anything about Dylan looking or sounding ambivalent or acting like he wanted to stop killing or to turn themselves into the cops.  Instead, Dylan calmly strode around as if conducting the business of the day to be done, lighting and tossing pipe bombs and running down the hall shooting at fleeing students while laughing and whooping it up. He stuck his guns under the library tables and point and shot without a care. He stood over a helpless Lance Kirklin and shot directly at his face at close-range.  How would any of these actions demonstrate Dylan being tricked?  Please tell me how does one shoot at people so many times and not be homicidal? How is one that matter-of-factly tells the guy under the library table who asks him what he’s doing “oh, just killing people” not voluntarily homicidal? Dylan came to the school that day to kill others and kill himself and he did so willingly, therefore, he was both homicidal and suicidal. Case closed.  Now, whether Dylan preferred that he himself die more than to kill is another nuanced discussion entirely but the fact of the matter is that he wanted both enough to carry out what he did that day of his own volition, and he did both without a hitch.

I read your opinion on Robyn’s interview but do you actually think she had NO idea about 4/20? I mean I just think it’s sketchy how quickly she answered after Diane asked if she knew….I get she was probably still grieving or was nervous but idk how to feel about it.

I don’t think Robyn blatantly knew what was going down on 4/20, no. Hypothetically, the dudes may have made vague jokes as to what they had in store for 4/20 but that would be expected as it was their school’s designated senior prank day in addition to weed day. Students regularly would shit talk about prank plans for the big day.  This fact was a joke in itself for E & D in deciding upon going with 4/20 as opposed to their initial idea of 4/19 (the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary).  So, friends wouldn’t at all read-in to their wink/nudge references and take it as literally serious enough to feel uncomfortable or suspicious about it.  As with Robyn, she spoke more to Dylan than Eric as a friend. And Dylan never vented about wanting violent vengeance around her.  Anything he may have said was couched in a joke.  And teenage boys tend to joke about such things. When she saw the two boys together they did activities like bowling, shooting pool, watching movies. There were no deep discussions when Robyn was in the company of E & D.  She might have seen bits and pieces of how they interacted together but I don’t think she had all the pieces to figure out what they were planning to go down.  They were her friends – so why would she think they’d do something so horrible?  She gave them the benefit of the doubt as her friends that they could be trusted and they were nice guys.  I certainly do not think she was the sort of person that would’ve been comfortable fully knowing about the plan and having a fair few friends in harm’s way at the school as she rushed to get a Diary Queen lunch with some of her friends. After all, they returned back to the school. Why would she plan to return at all if she knew the sort of devastation that was about to go down?  Would she be okay with letting Dylan and Eric get hurt,  or shot by cops or end up in prison for fucking up their school for revenge sake?  I don’t think she could’ve handled sitting on all of those feelings had she fully known about what they planned. 

I do think that Robyn was nervous in that tv interview with Barbara Walters. I feel as though she had disconnected from all the horrible things that had happened in order to cope. She was in shock and was calmly distanced from it. Probably by each evening, she would lay in bed at night alone in her room and ruminate over everything in her mind and then emotionally crumble into a deluge of tears  I believe it’s certainly possible she was on something like valium in order to manage through a televised interview where millions of people would be watching and judging her every move and scrutinizing her answer to each and every question.

Do you think that there are bullies still at Columbine? Has it changed at all?

Yes, bullying still goes on at Columbine. It’s been confirmed by current students who have talked about their experience on here as well as on youtube. I can’t really speak in terms of comparing ‘then to now’ only that well, let’s just say some things haven’t changed.  I don’t think the school really learned enough to create a permanent sort of lasting change. New kids are rotated through it on a regular basis so the precedence that once was in place post ‘99 has been kind of lost. It takes work and regular mindfulness to educate each group of kids moving through the school from start to finish. But you have a community and a school that’s a part of it which had once been majorly wounded, and so the preference is to forget the painful past tragedy and just to keep calm and carry on. So, with that head-buried-in-the-sand mindset, history is sadly, only doomed to repeat itself.

Columbine has a way of snagging people. I’ve tried to separate myself from TC many times but I always end up coming back for more Columbine even though there is nothing important left for me to learn lmao

Yep, I’d say that what you’ve just described is generally what happens to many people that get neck (or eye balls?) deep into the C olumbine case. I think of it kinda like a virus that you come down with and assimilate as part of your body yet you never really rid of it kind of like idk? chicken pox or hepatitis or something.  It can flare back up again at any time. lol

Has Sue every mentioned the Harris family in her public interviews or guest speakings?

Yes, she’s mentioned in her book and a couple of times in public that they have kept in touch with the Harrises but the general feeling is that its minimal contact and likely amounts to cards and letters over the years. Perhaps even a phone call between Sue and Kathy once in a blue moon. Sue was clear that she will not be speaking on behalf of the Harris family nor discussing anything she’s spoken about with them because it’s not her place to do so.  She has chosen to respect their wishes and allow them their peace.