Both the boys' parents issued apologetic statements shortly after the shootings, proclaiming their shock about the shooting spree. Like the rest of the country, they said, they still are trying to find out what happened, what turned their children from bright, ambitious kids to killers. It's probably not possible to explain what exactly happened to those boys or what made them so angry. It certainly wasn't their taste in music. One of the most frustrating things about incidents such as Littleton is that nobody ever seems to learn from them.
Society is too willing to lay the blame on other factors.
It's easy to understand why people want a simple explanation for shootings. It's easier to blame a staple of pop culture than it is to realize nobody intervened until after it was much too late. Nobody wants to admit that these kids desperately needed help, and no one seemed to reach out to them. In light of what happened last week, it's extremely embarrassing to acknowledge that a teacher never called their parents, telling them there may be reason to be concerned. It's embarrassing to admit that their parents either didn't notice the warning signs or didn't care.