Columbine

by Dave Cullen

Dave was all laughs that might with Linda.

A.M.--lfive and seven minutes into the attack.

Eric would scamper out to the garage to get his tackle together and help load the cooler into the back of their'73 Ram pickup.

Hare created a separate screening device for juveniles and identified hallmarks that appear during the school years: gratuitous lying, indifference to the pain of others, defiance of authority figures, unresponsiveness to reprimands or threatened punishment, petty theft, persistent aggression, cutting classes and breaking curfew, cruelty to animals, early experimentation with sex, and vandalism and setting fires. Eric bragged about nine of the ten hallmarks in his journal and on his Web site--for most of them, relentlessly. Only animal cruelty is missing.

Cleckley described this as a poverty of emotional range. That's a tricky concept, because psychopaths develop a handful of primitive emotions closely related to their own welfare. Three have been identified: anger, frustration, and rage. Psychopaths erupt with ferocious bouts of anger, which can get them labeled "emotional."

Instead, it provided about seven hundred pages of what,how, and when.

(Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic).

The measure would pass by a two-to-one margin. The gun show loophole was closed in Colorado. It was defeated in Congress. No significant national gun-control legislation was enacted in response to Columbine.