General Thoughts on Columbine

While reading the book, I noticed a general aspect about society that I have not given much thought about before. People generally need some sort of a culprit or scapegoat to blame a disaster on to feel secure about the world. In this case, there were two seemingly normal boys who were behind a mass murder of a high school. People needed to know who was to blame, whether it was there parents or some sort of mental problems. I see that people cannot accept the idea of two completely normal and functional people carrying out such a horrible deed without reason. It seems like people do not like what is unpredictable because they want to be prepared for everything. I myself am also confused as to what triggered Eric and Dylan to do such a thing. There is much evidence that shows the possibility of Eric being a psychopath, and Dylan was simply depressed. But what confuses me is how Eric appeared to be such a normal person if he really was a psychopath. I read that psychopaths are masters of manipulating others with lies, so maybe Eric faked his personality? I also find it strange that Dylan chose to follow Eric and join in the shooting if he was depressed. He seemed to lean towards self blame and self loathing rather than blaming others, and I wonder what could have caused this sudden blame shift. Could it be related somehow to his crush? Or maybe he just gave up on trying to please others to make friends and became angry. Whatever the reason, I think Dylan did not really want to be a part of the event, and I think it was an act of blind frustration. They would both take their lives in the end, and Dylan had already been writing about committing suicide in the end. I think Dylan must have thought something along the lines of "whatever, screw it" and just went along with it.