Just a couple more questions to add to the discussion:

The boys at Columbine were from affluent families, in an affluent suburb of an major American city. Why did they deem themselves to be so hopeless? I had heard (there again, in a media account I have grown to be wary of) that one had bad grades.

And more is coming to light, thanks to lawsuits, that the authorities had more than ample opportunity to stop this days, weeks, months before the event. Did they just think such carnage was unthinkable?

It is so important to remember these events, without enshrining them as some sort of cultic reverence. Those of you who teach in junior and senior high schools have my support.

Freightdawg