This week was the tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School Massacre. A local free-lance writer, Dave Cullen, has written a book about it. Cullen admitted in an NPR interview I heard the other day that he was just one of many "journalists" who fell for the b.s. that the killers were themselves victims of bullies at the high school. Cullen's research clarifies that the truth was that Eric Harris was a stone cold psychopath, while Dylan Klebold was a more typical depressed teen feeling sorry for himself and, therefore, being vulnerable to manipulation by someone like Harris.
The book also revealed that long before the shootings, a Jefferson County Sheriff's employeee had prepared a well reasoned affadavit asking for a warrant to search the Harris home. The affadavit was never presented to a judge, and was found many months after the massacre. What did the Jefferson County Sheriff's department do after they found the affadavit? They covered it up!
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The question here is why did they feel the need to cover up? Is it because our society would rather blame law enforcement who "should" have prevented rather than admit we have evil people among us?
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