Adriana Hinojosa Period 8, Silence Broken

In two months it will be seventeen years since the shooting at Columbine occurred. Sue Klebold, mother of Dylan Klebold (one of the perpetrators), has spoken out publicly for the first time since the terrible incident. She was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC. On April 20th, 1999, Sue Klebold lost a lot. She not only lost all trust in her son and hope for him to succeed but she lost her son. In the interview, Klebold really opens up about how she has felt for all of this time: guilty, confused, but really just overall broken. After reading the article I spent my night researching Dylan Klebold to look into what his motives really were. While there was no true motive, Dylan was bullied all throughout his life. There is nothing that can justify what happened on that Tuesday at Columbine High School but his being bullied was a really big factor as to why he had so much anger and bitterness built inside. Humans can be such insensitive little monsters and we fail to realize the long term effects our words and actions can have on another's life. I cannot even begin to relate to what was going on in Klebold's head but I feel really sorry for him. For some reason, when I was researching him I didn't feel anger towards the kid. Why? Because he was a kid. What he did was awful but the thought of him and what he did makes me really sad and I would just like to talk to him and tell him that there are ways of dealing with certain feelings. Eric Harris (Dylan's friend & accomplice) and Dylan Klebold were both very troubled teenagers and their committing suicide right after the mass shooting just goes to show that the shooting was a by-product of emotions they were feeling towards themselves, not towards the people they killed. What they did was horrible and I would love to say that because of this shooting, people are now searching for self help but school shootings have only become more common and more violent. In 2015, there were more school shootings than there were days in the year. Unlike natural disasters, occurrences like these are in our hands. Could we have stopped Harris and Klebold at Columbine? Probably not. But these kinds of things are a domino effect. Maybe if Klebold and Harris had never been bullied, they wouldn't have been tormented and hungry to destroy. We don't know. We also know of certain mental illnesses that we have no control over but what we do have control over is our character. We need to treat everyone with kindness. Each mind is it's own little world. We have no idea what someone is going through ever even though we think we do and so the best thing we can do is be empathetic and just treat others as we'd like to be treated.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/mother-of-columbine-killer-breaks-silence/41373093