Columbine

The very word “Columbine” summons an image of gun-toting teens mowing down teachers and students in their high schools. In the media frenzy of the time and in the years since certain misconceptions about the event have found their way into common wisdom. The perpetrators were portrayed as Goths, gay......more

What does it matter that two crazy teenagers shot 12 other teenagers and one teacher to death at a school somewhere in the American Midwest over ten years ago? It was just another school shooting and since then we have had Virginia Tech which accounted for nearly three times as many victims, didn’t......more

im scared to age me, but i was 7 when columbine happened. although thats young and i was growing up in a completely different state, its a tragedy that did shape me. i come home from school that day and my mom sat me down to talk to me about what had happened. she recounted that a girl who had been n......more

The definitive book on the most memorable US school shooting (at least before Newtown and Stoneman Douglas) by a reporter who followed the story for at least last ten years. Dave Cullen demonstrates conclusively that almost everything we thought we knew about Columbine was wrong: 1) the shooters wer......more