Columbine happened when I was 15. American schools are driven by externals rather than root causes. After Columbine, guns didn’t kill people. Black trench coats did. According to David Cullen’s book on the massacre, Harris was a sociopath, but the media played the shooting as goths versus jocks. Suddenly, every freak was a future mass murderer.
Molly Crabapple (via dcy3)