BL0G #3

     Eric and Dylan shot up Columbine High School. The massacre lasted approximately 50 minutes, yet it took 3 HOURS until wounded victims were found in the school. There were dozens and dozens of cop cars at the scene, yet not a single cop entered the building. The protocol was to set up a perimeter and wait for the SWAT team. That makes me so mad!! On top of that, bodies laid outside the school, some stayed there untouched overnight. Danny Rohrbough's cold body sprawled on the sidewalk was on the cover of the local paper the next morning; that was his father's ONLY notification of his son's death. WHAT?! Also, the mother of an old friend of Eric and Dylan's, had gone to police reporting Eric for death threats against his son. Mysteriously, the documents regarding this mother's visit to the sheriff's office were 'misplace' following the Columbine Massacre. So many fishy things going on here.
     I really can't get over how well this book is written. Cullen reveals EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, and somehow, I have yet to read a boring part. Right now, Fuselier (a terrorism expert/psychologist who works for the FBI) is talking about how Eric showed all the signs of a young psychopath. Fuselier also mentions that the MRI scan of a typical brain and a scan of the brain of a psychopath reveals something that I think is actually pretty darn scary. A typical brain actually looks physically different than the brain of a psychopath. Better yet, the brain of a psychopath actually closely resembles the brains of animals. CRAZY! It makes sense, since there are so many things that psychopaths literally are not capable of feeling, but still! To think that Eric's brain is not completely human-like really makes me believe that pure evil is real.
    It amazes me how Cullen and so subtly enter the mind of someone in the book and almost narrate it from that character's perspective. When he does this, I know that he is still the narrator, but somehow I feel like I am inside the minds of different people within the book. I also have yet to sense any form of bias. Sometimes when I'm reading a third person piece, I can sort of imagine what the narrator looks and sounds like. In this book, I can't imagine the narrator at all, and I think that's a good thing! Absolutely zero bias. He's simply unfolding the full story of the Columbine massacre, simply because the public should know what happened leading up to that day, as well as the chaotic aftermath.