We have to begin training parents to detect the signs. All these things have a million reasons. The great danger is reading this incident as a cause for an anti-gun campaign. As yet, little is known about the home life of the two suicide killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. When teenagers start putting on pancake makeup and Gothic outfits, as Klebold and Harris did, they're looking for a way to communicate, and while that behavior certainly doesn t indicate homicidal tendencies, it's a sure cry for attention.
Every child needs an adult.
But you have to remember, their suicides are a statement. They are punishing their parents. In the end they couldn't get anywhere. Rather than focusing on the killers, Sereny believes, at this point the police should be concentrating on the killers' friends and accomplices, the so-called Trench Coat Mafia. When I was 18, I thought that they must find one of the people from the extermination camps and find out why they did this and what they felt.