Isn't this an unnecessarily cruel point to make, I ask him. Isn't he saying that those people were complicit in the deaths of their own children? There is a long silence.
Eventually he murmurs "It's a bitter pill to swallow." And then: "I have other thoughts that go further which I didn't put in the film because I did think they were too cruel." Like what? "Well, I watched all the tape, and I went there, and I'm a parent. I don't know if you're a parent?" No. "If your kid was in that school, would a little piece of yellow police tape keep you from going in there and saving your child? The police have got their guns drawn and they're telling you that you had better not cross the line. I would say to the police, 'Well, you'd better put a bullet in my head because I'm going in there to get my kid.'"
I tell him that I don't quite get his point. He continues for a while without quite making it, possibly because he daren't. "For three hours, everybody, including the police, including the SWAT teams, stayed outside while people bled to death. Dylan and Eric were dead within 45 minutes, okay?
Eventually he murmurs "It's a bitter pill to swallow." And then: "I have other thoughts that go further which I didn't put in the film because I did think they were too cruel." Like what? "Well, I watched all the tape, and I went there, and I'm a parent. I don't know if you're a parent?" No. "If your kid was in that school, would a little piece of yellow police tape keep you from going in there and saving your child? The police have got their guns drawn and they're telling you that you had better not cross the line. I would say to the police, 'Well, you'd better put a bullet in my head because I'm going in there to get my kid.'"
I tell him that I don't quite get his point. He continues for a while without quite making it, possibly because he daren't. "For three hours, everybody, including the police, including the SWAT teams, stayed outside while people bled to death. Dylan and Eric were dead within 45 minutes, okay?