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Eric and Dylan were very dangerous individuals. Dylan wasn't a bad kid, however he was very emotional and influenceable, so with Eric guiding him, he went down the wrong path and helped him with the shooting. Eric was simply insane, he just wanted to cause chaos.

"Judgement day, they called it. Columbine would erupt with an explosion, too. Eric designed at least seven big bombs, working off The Anarchist Cookbook he found on the web...  Step one was planting them in a park near Eric's house, three miles from he school. That bomb could kill hundreds of people but was intended for only stones and trees...  They estimated the damage variously as 'hundreds,' 'several hundred,' and 'at least four hundred' ". (Cullen 32)

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I believe that while Eric and Dylan showed signs of deeper issues before the shooting, they also committed act, and went to lengths that had not been seen before. Many of their peers and teachers may not have recognized the full danger of them. Dylan was a hot headed, depressive, suicidal person who could have been saved from Eric’s influence had possibly a parent noticed. I don’t believe you can truly point a finger at anyone for Eric’s actions. He wanted to watch the world burn, and was simply a psychopath through-and-through.

“Eric penned nearly a dozen new journal entries in the next two months.

"I have a goal to destroy as much as possible," he wrote, "so I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy, mercy, or any of that."

It was a mark of Eric's ruthlessness that he comprehended the pain and consciously fought the urge to spare it.” (Cullen 6)

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Both Dylan and Eric are both at fault
"Dr. Fuselier is fond of saying it takes heat and cold to make a tornado. Eric craved heat but couldn't sustain it, Dylan was a volcano... Day after day Dylan Juiced Eric with erect jolts of excitement. They played the killing out again and again: the cries, the screams, the smell of burning flesh...
Eric savored the anticipation.
(Cullen 244)

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The main fault falls majority on both boys, Eric and Dylan, but not for the most common reason. It is very evident that both boys suffered from mental illnesses that contributed to the massacre. While this in no means take fault off the killers, it is a justifiable reason.

"Eric would begin his journal as a killer. He already knew where it would end. Every page pointed in the same direction, His purpose was not self-discovery but self-lionization. Dylan was just trying to grapple with existence. He had no idea where he was headed." (Cullen 175

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I believe that the parents of the two boys are at fault. The parents miss read their children and failed to address the more serious problem. The parents blew off warning signs that lead Erick and Dylan downfall

" They described a normal teenage boy: extraordinarily shy but happy. Dylan was coping well with adolescence and developing into a responsible young adult. They entrusted him with major decisions when he could articulate his rational. Teachers loved him and so did other kids." (Cullen 209)

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I believe that Eric and Dylan are at fault, since they are the ones who decided to massacre children. Eric and Dylan are fully responsible. I also believe the parents are too. They should have payed more attention to their children. The parents also should have been more involved in their social and personal life.

"kill them all. well in case you haven't figured it out yet, I say 'KILL MANKIND,'" (Cullen 258)

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I believe Eric is mostly to blame for the shooting itself. He had a mental illness and his parents failed to understand that and help. Thus, leading to Eric going down a dark path.

"In a perfect world, Eric would extinguish the species. Eric was a practical kid, though. The planet was beyond him; even a block of Denver high-rises was out of reach. But he could pull off a high school."

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I believe Eric and Dylan were at fault, because even those they may have been provoked, they were the ones who decided to open fire on the school.
“At 11:19, they opened the duffel bags at the top of the stairs, pulled out the shotguns, and strapped them to their bodies. They locked and loaded the semiautomatics. One of them yelled, ‘Go! Go!’ Somebody, almost certainly Eric, opened fire."
(Cullen, 46)

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I believe Eric is most at fault, even more than Dylan. Because of his psychopathy, he is manipulative, can read people and lie without the slightest hint of guilt.
"Dr. Fuselier set down the [Eric's] journal. It had taken him about an hour to read, that first time, in the noisy Columbine band room, two or three days after the murders. Now he had a pretty good hunch about what he was dealing with: a psychopath" (236 Cullen).

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It was the people surrounding Eric and Dylan that are at fault. The cops, classmates and parents.
" His second entry came early: just two weeks after the first. His ideas were beginning to cohere. "The battle between good and bad never ends," he wrote. Dylan would repeat this for the next two years. Good and evil, love and hate-always wrestling, never resolving. Pick your side, it's up to you-but you better pray it picks you back. Why would love never choose him? "I don't know what i do wrong with people," he wrote, "it's like they are set out to hate and insult me, I never know what to say or do." He had tried. He had brought in Chips Ahoy cookies to win them over. What exactly would it take?" (Cullen 176)

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I will choose to kill, eric wrote. Why? His explanations didn't add up. Because we were morons? How could that make a kid kill? To most readers, eric's rants sounded nuts. Fuselier had the opposite reaction  Insanity was marked by mental confusion. Eric Harris expressed cold, rational calculation. (cullen 333)

I think psychopathy and pure mental confusion is truly at fault for the tragedy. It wasn't because of bullying or the TCM. Eric and Dylan just wanted to kill for their own joy. They wanted to be remembered as mad men and set off a chain reaction, which they definitely accomplished. Eric hated the world and wanted it to be extinct. He had the perfect attributes to be considered a psychopath. Mental illness was the reason for columbine.

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I believe that both Eric and Dylan are at fault but their parents are also at fault. They should have seen some kind of sign that something was odd about the two boys.

" Wayne documented several conversations with lawyers. He wrote "probation," circled it, and added, "take any chances for reformation or diversion" (Cullen 214)

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I believe they're both responsible, but more so Eric than Dylan.

“His journal began a year earlier than Eric’s, filled nearly five times as many pages, and remained active right up until the end. But Eric would begin his journal as a killer. He already know where it would end. Every page pointed in the same direction. His purpose was not self-discovery but self-lionization. Dylan was just trying to grapple existence. He had no idea where he was headed."(Cullen 175)

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I believe that Eric is mostly to blame for the massacre events but Dylan is still very guilty due to falling shortly behind his power as he went along with the plans.

"Eric killed for two reasons: to demonstrate his superiority and to enjoy it. To a psychopath, both motives make sense. "Psychopaths are capable of behavior that normal people find not only horrific but baffling." (Cullen 239)

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I believe that Eric is most at fault in this tragedy, mainly because his initial intentions were to kill, he already was a violent person. I feel that Dylan would have only harmed himself if it were not for Eric's influence.

" The journal told infinitely more than Eric's Web site had.The Web site-which predated the journal by at least a year- was mostly vented rage. It told us who he hated, what he wanted to do to the world, and what he had already done. It said very little about why. The journal was angry but deeply reflective. And infinitely more candid about the urges driving Eric to kill.
Fuselier read while the photo copies ran, he read on the walk back to the ATF agent's desk, he stood there reading rather than return to his own desk. He didn't notice hi back stiffening p for several minutes, until he was finally interrupted. Then he took a seat. And kept reading. 'Holy shit', Fuselier thought. ' He's telling us why he did it.
Eric would prove the easier killer to understand. Eric always knew what he was up to, Dylan did not"(Cullen 170)

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I believe Eric is at fault mainly due to the fact of his suicidal and depressive ideas and overall sense of how he had psychopathic characteristics/symptoms, He was even overly obsessive with the thought of murder.

"“Eric penned nearly a dozen new journal entries in the next two months.
"I have a goal to destroy as much as possible," he wrote, "so I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy, mercy, or any of that."
(Cullen 260-270 / ch.40)

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I believe that both Eric and Dylan's English teachers are partly at fault. Between their actions and class and the essays they turned in, the teachers should have been concerned. All their teachers did about it was ask them personally about these things when they could have let a counselor know and hopefully averted their plans.

"Dylan wasn't the first kid to write a violent story--- Eric had been writing combat scenes about heroic Marines all semester. Eric was obsessed with warfare; he mimed machine-gun fire in class all the time. But war stories were different; Dylan's protagonist was killing civilians, ruthlessly, and enjoying it. Kelly wrote a note at the bottom instructing Dylan to come see her." (Cullen 308

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Eric's most at fault for the shooting, but also Dylan can be found to blame  for feeding his obsession.

“Day after day, for more than a year, Dylan juiced Eric with erratic jolts of excitement. They played the killing out again and again: the cries, the screams, the smell of burning flesh… Eric savored the anticipation.” (Cullen 244)

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I believe that if Eric's parents had seen that something was wrong with him instead of covering his mistakes up, things might've turned out different.

“Wayne logged page after page of calls to cops, lawyers, and prosecutors, working through their options. The juvenile Diversion program sounded ideal: a year of counseling and community service, along with fines, fees, and restitution. If Eric completed it successfully and kept clean for an additional year, the robbery would be expunged from his record." (Cullen 214)

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The other kids at that school are to blame in my opinion, if there even is someone to blame. They were constantly around Eric and Dylan and a good number of students had had disputes with them. Even though it is very difficult to see this and yes they were in high school, they still must have noticed that these two boys were a little different than the rest of them.

"An FBI agent interviewed Kristi Epling the day after the murders. Kristi was connected to both killers, particularly Eric. They were close, and she was dating his buddy Nate Dykeman. She didn't seem to know much, though. Her FBI report was brief and unremarkable...
Kristi did not mention any of his notes in her possession...
She played it cool about her notes during her FBI interview, then mailed them to a friend in St. Louis who was unconnected to Columbine and unlikely to be questioned. Kristi was careful: no return address on the envelope." (Cullen, 206-207)

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I believe that Eric and Dylan had a sense of insanity within them, being fueled by anger.

"Dylan did nothing on his own, but Eric amused himself heartily at the top of the stairs, shooting, laughing, and hurling pipe bombs. He spotted a junior named Anne Marie Hochhalter getting up from the curb to make a run for it. Eric hit her with a 9mm round. She kept running, and he hit her again. This time she went down. A friend picked her up, and dragged her to the building, and got her out of Eric’s sight. Then he let go of her and ran. He ducked behind a car in the senior lot, and a pipe bomb exploded where Anne Marie had first collapsed." (49 Cullen)

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Satan’s influence on Eric is at fault for this event.

“They had a savior to reach out to and The Enemy to repel. Satan was at work in Jefferson County, any Bible-church pastor would tell you so. Long before Eric and Dylan struck, tens of thousands of Columbine Evangelicals prepared for the dark prince. The Enemy, they called him. He was always on the prowl.” (Cullen 29)

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"Both boys fantasized about murder, but Dylan focused on the single attack. Eric had a grander vision. All his writing alluded to a wider slaughter: killing everything, destroying the human race. In a passionate journal entry a month later, he would cite the Nazis' Final Solution: "kill them all. well in case you haven't figured it out yet, I say 'KILL MANKIND.' " (Cullen 258)

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“Dr. Fuselier had the opposite reaction. Insanity was marked by mental confusion. Eric Harris expressed cold, rational calculation. Fuselier ticked off Eric’s personality traits: charming, callous, cunning, manipulative, comically grandiose, and egocentric, with an appalling failure of empathy. It was like reciting the Psychopathy Checklist”
(Cullen 239)

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Both Eric and Dylan are at fault for the events at Columbine.

"Eric craved heat, but he couldn't sustain it. Dylan was a volcano. You could never tell when he might erupt. Day after day, for more than a year, Dylan juiced Eric with erratic jolts of excitement. They played the killing out again and again: the cries, the screams, the smell of burning flesh... Eric savored the anticipation." (Cullen 244)

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“National polls taken shortly after the attack would identify all sorts of culprits contributing to the tragedy: violent movies, video games, Goth culture, lax guns laws, bullies, and Satan. Eric did not make the list. Dylan didn’t either. They were just kids. Something or someone must have led them astray. Wayne and Kathy and Tom and Sue were the chief suspects. They dwarfed all other causes, blamed by 85 percent of the population in a Gallup poll.” (Cullen 107)

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“The Harris and Klebold parents responded the way they always did. Wayne Harris was a pragmatist. He would make Eric regret what he’d done. With outsiders he was focused on containment; Eric’s future was at stake.” (Cullen 196)

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I believe that it is Eric Harris’s fault because he is a horrible person and wanted to kill people

“It’s a safe bet that Eric and Dylan watched the carnage of Waco and Oklahoma City on television, with the rest of the country. Those atrocities were particularly prominent in this region. McVeigh was tried in federal court in downtown Denver and sentenced to death while the boys attended Columbine in the suburbs. The scenes of devastation were played over and over. In his journal, Eric would brag about topping McVeigh. Oklahoma City was a one note performance: McVeigh set his timer and walked away; he didn’t even see the spectacle unfold. Eric dreamed much bigger than that.” (Cullen 32)

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Eric was set on committing a mass murder at his high school, and nothing would change his decision. Ultimately, the crimes that were committed were his fault because he was the one who went through with the bombs and picked up the gun and fired.

“Eric and Dylan had to proceed on faith. As far as Eric and Dylan knew, cops were already speeding south. They would see the commons disintegrate, though. Each car was positioned for a perfect view. The cafeteria would explode in front of them; they would watch their classmates be torn apart and incinerated, and their high school burning to the ground." (Cullen 44)

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I believe that the students, teachers, and peers surrounding Eric and Dylan are to blame for the shooting because the way that people are treated greatly affect outlook and attitude concerning the world.

“‘I forgive you,’ someone responded. Half of the messages were conciliatory: ‘Sorry we all failed you.’" (Cullen 193)

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I blame Eric.
"While Eric was devising his attack, Dr. Hare was working on a regimen to address his kind. Hare began by reexamining the data on those spontaneous improvers. From adolescence to their fifties, pyschopaths showed virtually no change in in emotional characteristics but improved in antisocial behavior. The inner drives did not change but their behavior did." (Cullen 246)

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Eric is more to blame than Dylan. Eric knew from the beginning that he wanted to kill while Dylan was just going through depression.

“But Eric would begin his journal as a killer. He already knew where it would end. Every page pointed in the same direction. His purpose was not self-discovery but self-lionization. Dylan was just trying to grapple with existence. He has no idea where he was headed.” (Cullen 175)

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"Eric was neither normal nor insane. Psychopathy (is-COP-uh-thee) represents a third category. Psychopathic brains don't function like those in either of the other groups, but they are consistently similar to one another. Eric killed for two reasons: to demonstrate his superiority and to enjoy it." (Cullen 239)

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I believe it is a mixture of the shooters' fault and their parents. The parents failed to see how troubled their kids were and look into what trouble they were getting into, and the shooters should have attempted to get help instead of immediately resulting to violence and suicide.

"Judgement Day, they called it. Columbine would erupt with an explosion too. Eric designed at least seven big bombs, working off The Anarchist Cookbook he found on the Web. He chose the barbecue design: standard propane tanks, the fat round white ones, eighteen inches tall, a foot in diameter, packing some twenty pounds of highly explosive gas. Bomb #1 employed aerosol cans for detonators, each wired up to an old fashioned alarm clock with round metal balls on top." (Cullen 32)

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I blame Eric because he loved power over people.

"Dr. Fuselier was not surprised by the notes. Ver cold-blooded. ANy kid could get in a fight. Dan had gotten really angry, and in the heat of a fist-fight had clocked Eric. Eric was planning his punch. He wanted Dan to stand there defenseless and let him do it. Complete power over the kid. That's what Eric craved." (Cullen 208)

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I believe that Eric is most at fault. While Dylan also pulled the trigger, Eric heavily influenced the way Dylan thought, and eventually acted.

“This time, Eric was producing to kill. Morons had nerve to judge him, he said. To call him crazy just for envisioning mass murder?  Empty, vacuous, morons standing in judgement? ‘If you got a problem with my thoughts, come tell me and I’ll kill you,’ he posted. ‘DEAD PEOPLE DON’T ARGUE! God DAMNIT I AM PISSED!!!!’ “ (Cullen 216)

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The students who did not speak up were at fault.

"Chris was starting to worry. Eric and Dylan were making a lot of bombs. They had blown a  bunch off. And he was hearing stories from all kinds of kids about them getting guns. Chris noticed a change in Eric. He was acting aggressive all of a sudden, picking fights with people for no good reason. Nate Dykeman saw something, too, in both Eric and Dylan: cutting classes more, sleeping in class, acting secretive. No one said anything." (Cullen 330)

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Eric is to most at fault for the massacre.

"Eric talked about his "best parents" again- and the cops making them pay. 'It fucking sucks to do this to them,' he said. 'They're going to be put through hell.' They could not have stopped him, Eric assured them. He quoted Shakespeare: 'Good wombs have borne bad sons'." (Cullen 332)

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"Dr. Fuselier was not surprised by the notes. Very cold-blooded. Any kid could get in a fight. Dan had gotten really angry, and in the heat of a fist-fight had clocked Eric. Eric was planning his punch. He wanted Dan to stand there defenseless and let him do it. Complete power over the kid. That’s what Eric craved." (Cullen 208)