ere this tragedy will come to an end. After placing their last bomb on a table, Eric Harris pointed the gun at himself and fired. Seconds later, Fate’s vengeful eye turned on Dylan Klebold as he shot himself in the left temple, his Red Sox hat galling on Harris’ legs. Official time of death: 12:03 PM.After the deaths of Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, and 13 victims, investigators searched the young men’s rooms. What they found was 5 videos, over 3 hours of video footage, of Eric and Dylan in the basement of the Harris home, speaking as if from the grave about the shootings that had taken place. Struggling to understand why these boys would commit such an act of violence, these tapes were reviewed many times. Dylan Klebold spoke with hostility about years of petty abuse, and how he did not care that he was going to kill these people because he was going to die doing it. Eric, on the other hand, showed a more human side, as opposed to the heartless monster he has been made out to be. He states that he wishes he were a sociopath so that he wouldn’t feel any remorse. He also apologizes to his parents, stating that “this is going to tear then apart.”Although these videos do not give us a full view and complete answer as to why this tragedy unfolded, it gives more insight. Rumors and insults circled around these two young men’s heads every day of their lives until their vision was blurred with hate and revenge.And, sadly, due to the self-inflicted deaths of Eric and Dylan, we might never be able to fully comprehend what would drive these two boys to take the lives of 13 innocent victims. It’s hard to imagine a pain so deep and a fury so red that it would initiate the inhuman feelings that two teenage boys lived with for so long. Now, innumerable people are trying to see some sort of reasoning in the minds of two people whose views we will never be able to completely understand: the minds of Eric Ha...
