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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
We would learn the truth about Columbine, but we would not learn it today.
It had not really been intended as a shooting at all. Primarily, it had been a bombing that failed.
The department would eventually admit that it took more than twice that long, 47 minutes, for the first five-man team to enter.
The lesser myths are equally unsupported: no connection to Marilyn Manson, Hitler’s birthday, minorities, or Christians.
It is an axiom of journalism that disaster stories begin in confusion and grow clearer over time. Facts rush in, the fog lifts, an accurate picture solidifies. The public accepts this. But the final portrait is often furthest from the truth.
“He was a nice guy, never treated me bad,” Makai said. “He wasn’t the kind of person he’s being portrayed as.”
Craig is one of the leading rehab centers in the world, specializing in brain and spinal cord injuries.
moral imperatives are situational, absolutes are imaginary; therefore, he could kill anyone he wanted.
It would be called Take Back the School.
“What’s the human chain for?” a reporter asked. “To shield the students from you folk,” district spokesman Rick Kaufman said.
For Eric, Columbine was a performance. Homicidal art.
Only two are characterized by brutality or murder: the malevolent psychopath and the tyrannical. In these rare subtypes, the psychopath is driven less by a greed for material gain than by desire for his own aggrandizement and the brutal punishment of inferiors.
wouldn’t say a single word to them,” he said. “I would listen to what they have to say, and that’s what no one did.”
We see selfish little monsters. They anticipate emotions of god.
