The Depressive and the Psychopath – At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. By Dave Cullen
Pretty convincing case — Harris = psychopath, Klebold = depressive with a lot of anger. The world might be a better place if we understood better exactly what psychopathy/sociopathy/antisocial-personality-disorder *is* and how it *works*.
Don’t forget to click through to the seven myths about Columbine.
One of the interesting points is that by the perps’s own standards, Columbine was a failure. It was supposed to be a bombing, with the gunmen just picking off survivors. The bombs didn’t go off. Only a small fraction of the deaths that they planned on occurred.
I don’t know if they knew to draw this comparison or not, but what they were trying for was something more like the Bath, Michigan School Massacre of 1927 (NYT writeup).
Original link to Slate via Reddit.
If you haven’t seen this article on the secret writings of Eric Harris, it is not to be missed:
http://www.westword.com/issues/2001-12-06/news.html
Paul