Columbine

by Dave Cullen

quoting H. L. Mencken in response: “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

The Columbine effect has gone global. It has inspired mass shootings in Finland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and Russia—and knife and axe attacks in places as remote as Siberia.

Columbine-inspired mass murder has become America’s most appalling export.

Researchers have described school shootings as the American equivalent of suicide bombings—an ideology joined with a tactic.