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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^And I am not about to get into whether or not the lawsuits brought by the victims and the victims' families were or were not "ludicrous". Obviously that was for a judge/jury to decide.

I will say that as a parent I can totally understand how enormously devastating this whole thing was to them - not just for the victims who lost their lives but for the injured  victims whose young lives will never again be the same.  So much was stolen that day.  Those people were robbed.

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That's why when we see a troubled kid, we can't say, "not my business," because you never know when it WILL be your business, like it or not.

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Problem is the teenage years are often full of angst and misjudgments.  Drama and parental disdain.  If you go around looking for troubled teens, you will find them.  And if you treat otherwise good kids like "Troubled Teens!!" you will probably only make their problems even worse.  And, really, their problems really don't need to be anyone's business.

But there HAD to be something that set these two particular young men apart.  There had to be.  Normal kids with normal teen angst DO NOT do this.  [/quote]
I'm sorry, you sound really confused.[/quote]

No.  Most teens are not disturbed psychopaths.  And most teens do not hang out with disturbed psychopaths.  Dylan and Eric were not normal.  [/quote]
Did you miss where posters said they seemed normal, with normal families?[/quote]

Well you don't become a disturbed psychopath overnight nor is it particularly normal for a person to think "Yeah! Columbine sounds like a great idea.  Let's do it!"

You don't just leap from point A all the way to point Z.  Points B thru Y were there too and that is not what people are seeing.  They are focusing on the appearance of "nice boys, nice families" who very suddenly did something awful.

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You are correct. Glad we mostly agree. Except these bad boys did not have "good" parents. They had neglectful parents.[/quote]

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