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...sure, the report is an exhaustive affair, a CD-ROM that includes photographs, sound recordings and video from surveillance cameras. It's a complete reconstruction of Harris and Klebold's movements, from their guns-blazing entrance through the school's west entrance (11:19) to the moment the two teenage killers turned their weapons on themselves in the blood-soaked library (12:08). But the report doesn't answer the questions victims' families have about the killing spree, namely: What took SWAT teams more than 45 minutes - almost the entire length of the rampage - to get inside the school...
...victims, families and friends of those affected by last year's massacre at Columbine High School were bound to be disappointed by Monday's dissection on the tragedy. After all, no law enforcement report was likely to get into the minds of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. But the fact that the first detailed account of the massacre last April 20 fails to address other "whys" - why law enforcement took so long to act, why it took so long to get to some of the wounded - is bound to increase efforts to find resolution through the courts...
...come out. Connie Michalik, whose son was wounded as he sat on the grass outside the school, summed up: "Probably what we really want is not going to be in there." Including, of course, the answer to the biggest question of all: What went wrong with Harris and Klebold? For that, the report can only offer a chilling quote, uttered by one of the gunmen as the pair entered the school: "This is what we always wanted to do. This is awesome...
...equipped to handle the pressures of the 24-hour news cycle they were sucked into a year ago. After all, it was less than six months ago that County Sheriff John Stone got into trouble for screening for TIME magazine reporter Tim Roche the tapes that Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made prior to their deadly rampage. After a description of the tapes was published in TIME (parent, of course, of this web site), Stone denied that he gave Roche permission to describe what he saw. Roche says he was never asked not to describe the tapes...
...Kids at [Columbine] didn't respect themselves and clearly [gunners] Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris didn't respect the lives of anyone else," Gaughan says...