Why Columbine? NY Times bestseller explains killers' motives for Columbine shooting

Columbine wasn't about jocks, goths or Trenchcoat Mafia. Award-winning author debunks myths & unravels the Columbine shooting motives. Rare access to film much of the video inside the Columbine cafeteria, to show you exactly where and how the attack played out.

We also used surveillance footage of the killers in the cafeteria during the attack, and the videos Eric and Dylan made, including Hitmen For Hire. You will get a sense of what drove the killers to perpetrate the Columbine shooting and what they wrought

Columbine should not be a mystery. A team of experts brought in by the FBI cracked the case years ago. This video and book explains how and why.

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There's much more info about the Columbine shooting and Dave Cullen's Columbine book here:

http://davecullen.com/columbine.htm

"Columbine Online" is a powerful research tool to navigate the overwhelming data on the case. Share a decade of Dave Cullen's research. The site includes analysis and links to thousands of police files, the killers' journals, crime scene photos, videos, the Basement Tapes transcripts, etc.:

http://www.columbine-online.com/

And there is an instructor guide for the book--expanded, Nov. 2010:

http://www.columbine-instructor-guide.com/

New Columbine Student Guide, Nov. 2010:

http://www.davecullen.com/students/columbine-student-guide.htm

This video summarizes the Columbine book, as well as the tragedy, and it's a quick, easy way to gauge whether Columbine is the right book for you.

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[7oriole7]

This author tries to put the majority of blame on Eric Harris and that poor Dylan was forced into the whole thing by Eric.

This author is Jewish and he is being partial to Dylan being a Jew.

[davecullenwriter]

@7oriole7 OK, That's the funniest comment ever posted here. Amazingly bigoted world-view to see Jews behind everything bad--from Dylan to me--and "our" conspiracy to hide each other. I just find it comical for someone to ID me as Jewish. I'm an Irish Catholic (raised) boy from the Midwest, who went to Catholic school until high school and barely knew any Protestants as a youngerster. Didn't really know any Jews until college, when one became one of my best friends. (Ah, THEN they got me! haha.)

[junkiescience]

I've recently ordered this book. I find particularly fascinating the focus on discerning Eric from Dylan with respect to psychopathy versus depression. It's an angle that I feel didn't receive sufficient coverage. I'm looking forward to a more empathetic, multi-faceted analysis of the key players in this tragedy. One unencumbered by media sensationalism and the figurative (and completely dismissive) societal blame-game; seeking the truth that simply is, not the one that is simple. So to speak.

[davecullenwriter]

@junkiescience Thanks. That's exactly what I tried to do.

[catwoman34]

I just finished reading your book and still feel very emotional about it.I was prepared to hate the boys:while I believe Eric was a lost cause I actually found myself feeling sympathy for Dylan.I have suffered from severe depression my entire life and reading his journals was hard as I saw myself in them-not the murderous rants(I only wanted to hurt myself) but in feeling as if I would never be happy,always lonely,just wanting to be loved,etc.I wish I could go back in time and help somehow.

[ToN92X]

Fantastic book dave. One off the best i have ever read.

[MrApophis]

They don't deserve sympathy. Lots of people had it at least 4x worse in highschool and didn't go nuts. Besides, they were 2 fucking months away from graduating. They are also idiots because they failed at making bombs despite the intensive training they put themselves through.

[MrApophis]

@davecullenwriter i think you .. I think you got trolled, buddy.

[7oriole7]

@davecullenwriter Fine, I apologize for the jewish comment,lol.That was the only thing I could think of that would explain the kid glove treatment given to Dylan in the book. I just finished it so thank you and been reading other info as well. I actually feel compassion for both of these kids and I'm trying to understand motives. To me, Eric deserves more of a break because of medications he was on but both were equally psychotic. My feeling is that many of our youth are over medicated.

[AoSlappZ]

I am reading the book now, and I am fully engaged. I remember this when it happened because I was a freshman at my school. The victims and I are right around the same age... I feel a personal connection to this tragedy, and this book by Dave Cullen is very intriguing... Sad...

[RedFluryTC]

Kids just needed some love..

[davecullenwriter]

@stopfascisminAmerica If you want answers, I suggest you read the book. Nearly all libraries have copies.