Surreal.
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You said that you believe Dylan didn’t look at Eric after he had shot himself but a post you linked to says that from the crime scene photos “If you were to push Dylan from behind back to Eric’s knee, he would end up in an almost-kneeling position” – looking at the photo again and imagining this, does that not put Dylan in a position where he was facing Eric as he knelt?
Per the crime scene photo, Eric’s lower body was sprawled out after he’d blew off his head with the shotgun. The kick from the shotgun likely pushed him back forcefully so he was laying flat and his upper torso off to the side. Dylan was in a kneeling position facing the direction of the library windows and directly below him on the floor was Eric’s legs, and farther back from his line of vision, was Eric’s torso and bloody pulp of a head. When Dylan shot himself, he fell forward landing face forward on the knee region of Eric’s pants. Dylan and Eric were both facing the windows when they shot themselves and were not facing one another.
Any thoughts as to why they didn’t start “knifing people” as Eric suggested?
In my opinion, it’s far more likely that Dylan suggested using their knives. And I answered this question before. Please E-C search ‘knife’ for a few posts on the reasoning.
was dylan always tall? i feel like he really started growing in sophomore year. sue mentioned that he grew very tall in senior year, so i’m not entirely sure. i feel like in earlier years (1st-8th) he might have been small/average.
According to Sue, Dylan’s growth spurt began in his freshman year at CHS.
sorry, im sure youve answered this before but how do you know that dylans body fell onto erics?
You can catch yourself up to the factual case evidence in this post.
would you ever be willing to write a book about columbine? (to replace the monstrosity that is dave cullen’s book)
I would.. that is, if I could actually write.
I know you’ve already answered how Dylan *felt* when Eric shot himself but do you think- after seeing Eric’s head completely explode (not in a big major way but he did fuck up his face) do you think Dylan was like “ew” or something lol
You’re right, I already answered this one. 😉 My feeling is that Dylan knew what Eric had done without having to even risk looking back at him. He experienced Eric’s death with his other senses besides full-on visuals. That way he could stay focused on executing his own death. He was now all alone, gun in hand, with his figurative back up against the wall. It was now or never. See here.
Did they ever test their explosives? I understand them being teenagers, and not having a bunch of money, free time, or even a safe place to build and test bombs, but it really surprises me that they didn’t take their bombs not detonating into consideration.
Addressed before in this post here. 🙂
So u think that if Dylan had of gotten a girlfriend and dumped Eric ( like closed him out of his life) he would have made a different decision.
Maybe. I mean, yeah, if he had dumped Eric, there would’ve been no NBK. The girlfriend would’ve been a distraction for however long that lasted. If it was a short-lived relationship that ended badly, the suicidal thoughts would still be circling back at him again.
Did the boys ever talk about nirvana? If not what do you think their thoughts on nirvana were?
Ok, guys, just so you know, my Patreon account needs to get $25 every time I get this Top 10 repeat Q. 😉
Wow, have you seen Devons recent post talking about Dylan? It’s so sad.
I have, yes. 😕 Devon is such an eloquent writer and always has such a beautiful way with words. I figured I would share her public message here with all of you…💖
Hey #walkupnotout
As a survivor, I live every day with thinking what I could have done differently. Having been friends with a murderer, how did I fail? How did my actions or inactions lead to the murder of my friends? Could I have told Dylan I loved him and would that have stopped him? What if I had spent more time with him? What if I had swallowed my fear and dislike of Eric?
What if what if what if? My rational brain says that it’s highly unlikely that I would have had any effect on what happened. But I still march. And I still speak out. And I spend every April 20th practising and advocating for kindness. I can’t live in regret, I can only use my experience to press forward.
Stop victim blaming. And stop discouraging social discourse – especially about difficult subjects like the senseless murder of children. Protest, activism, and awareness are not mutually exclusive to kindness and compassion.Walk out.
Walk up. I walk with each of you.
March 14, 2018
Search and tagged are separate :) as long as you know what words were used, search features searches for all posts with those words in them, you don’t need to worry about retagging old posts
Yep but even the search has limitations. It’d be nice to have everything tagged properly as another way of finding things via a tag index. 🙂
Was there a reason they chose propane bombs, specifically? Was it because that was the easiest thing to get their hands on?
Probably, yes, and the easiest to purchase and cart around as unassuming ordinary BBQ fuel as well as not being messy or volatile. They either got the idea from the Anarchist Cookbook or just searching around on the WWW.
Does lance kirland have a tumblr because the previous ask, the person said they read something from his account?
Account as in his eyewitness account from the 11K
Did Dylan know any programming languages?
Beginning QBasic andVisual Basic, MS DOS, Unix, was learning Linux.
Where did Dylan live before moving to Colorado? What area, what house?
Dylan was born and raised in Colorado.
Did Dylan ask Robyn to prom or vice versa? Sorry if this has already been asked but I’ve searched your prom 1999 tag but couldn’t find the details of how they’re date came to be. Thanks.
Robin asked Dylan to go with her as friends and he said yes as a favor to her even though he didn’t really want to go.
I’m having trouble understanding how Dylan was so cruel during the shooting; I was reading Lance Kirkland’s account & it’s chilling how heartless Dylan was. Granted, to carry out a mass shooting in the first place is disturbing but Dylan apparently took sadistic glee in the murders. I would imagine witnessing a human dying&in pain would naturally induce some mercy yet instead it was met with mockery. Can you help explain his psychology here? Especially since Dylan was generally a caring person .
People that decide to murder people generally hang the caring hat up at the door and leave it behind. Dylan is certainly no exception. You can’t walk on the school grounds full of an assortment of weapons, ammo and explosives and be that killer that kills his victims gently and with oodles of kindness and compassion. A murderer needs to be cold and disconnected from their own humanity and others in order to destroy others, to be merciless. I answered an ask which was similar to yours and explained the psychology behind it here and here.
In court Nikolas looks so guilty. His head is always hung down low, he doesn’t make eye contact with anyone and he rarely speaks. I can’t help but think if Eric and Dylan got apprehended they would have a similar demeanor in court. Especially being confronted by the victim’s families, the full weight of what they’d done would collapse on them.
Do you think we’ll ever be able to see Dylan and Eric’s video in better quality? :)
No, because they recorded with 90s videotaping camcorders and tape media which were a poorer grade than the high def stuff technology we have today. You could filter sharpen it to an extent but it wouldn’t be all that much of an improvement. And honestly, if it could’ve been done, it would’ve nearly 20 years on.
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