This needs to be written about the failures of these two shooters, how it all began in their young life up to the point of their plans and why they were doomed to this failure. For example: From the killers failures in empathy to the self-perceived failures in their own lives (romantic and academic) to the failures of their homemade bombs, their journey was marked by humiliation and failure. Other people related to the shooting also experienced failures of many kinds: the shooters parents failed to notice the signs of depression and psychopathy that plagued their sons; the police department failed to extract the injured from the crime scene in time to save valuable lives; Jeffco officials whod been tipped off to the shooters disturbing behavior in the months before the attack failed to investigate them, and let a dangerous psychopath and a depressive who felt he had nothing to lose slip through the cracks of the justice system. The threat and realization of failure was a recurring fear for many of the individuals involved, even marginally, in the Columbine shooting, and Cullen argues that failure and humiliation, when combined, can prove a lethal catalyst for unstableor merely dishonestindividuals and entities.
