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“BY THE END OF MY JUNIOR YEAR, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS WERE MAKING their way into the news. The first one I heard about was in 1997, when Luke Woodham killed two students and wounded seven others in Pearl, Mississippi. Two months later, in West Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal killed three students at a high school prayer service. In March of 1998, Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden of Jonesboro, Arkansas—one aged thirteen, the other eleven—set off a fire alarm to make their fellow students run outside, then opened fire from the trees. They killed four students and a teacher. Finally, Kip Kinkel went on a rampage in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998. He murdered both of his parents at home, then went to school, killed two students, and wounded twenty-two others.”
― Brooks Brown, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

“Eric and Dylan are the ones responsible for creating this tragedy,” I told them. “However, Columbine is responsible for creating Eric and Dylan.”
― Brooks Brown, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

“To this day, references are made to the Trench Coat Mafia; I even heard the term used on the HBO show Six Feet Under not too long ago.”
― Brooks Brown, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

“The entertainment industry doesn't impose some kind of evil personality on consumers that's foreign to us; it feeds on who we are and how we live.”
― Brooks Brown, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School

“The problem was that the bullies were popular with the administration. Meanwhile, we were the “trouble kids,” because we didn't seem to fit in with the grand order of things.”
― Brooks Brown, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School

“Dylan was harassed by kids who had never been taught why it's wrong to beat up another classmate, or whose own self-esteem was so crushed that they felt they had to destroy his, too, so theirs could be pumped up a little more.”
― Brooks Brown, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School