Murderer's Parents

It is not that I am totally unsympathetic to the parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine killers. To whatever extent, ultimately indeterminable, that they could not have predicted or prevented their son's crime, then they too are victims of the Columbine tragedy. They lost their son in two senses: most obviously in the fact that he died, but also in that he left them as a murderer, not as the person they thought he was. In addition to never knowing him again, they found out that they had never known him at all.

Nonetheless, I would have preferred they remain silent rather than give an interview which amounts to little more than evasion, denial, and confrontation. There is precious little that the parents of a murderer can offer to the parents of their child's victims, but I imagine silence is always preferable to defiance.