The timing could not have been much worse. The 10-year anniversary of Columbine had come and gone. We’d relearned the Columbine lessons we’d nearly forgotten — that the questions are all too big and the answers all too small.
Even worse, all that we don’t know was sadly reinforced by the spate of mass shootings that arrived, as if on some deviant schedule, in the weeks leading up to the anniversary.
And just as we’d put it behind us, Dylan Klebold’s mother, Susan, chose to tell her story — “for the first time ever” — in O, the Oprah magazine.
So it all begins again.
There has been a school of thought — or maybe better called a school of hope — that if the parents of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris would only talk, they could tell us something essential, that they held family secrets that would allow us to better understand what happened that day.