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Guns and roses
Shenk, Joshua Wolf | June 14, 1999 issue

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The article focuses on violence by school children in the United States. Despite short-term security precautions or even long-term plans for prevention, each incident of shot-out at schools seems to increase the chances of another, the "copycat" phenomenon being not just a colloquialism but a fact of social science. By committing suicides after killing sixteen students at Columbine High school in Jefferson County, near Littleton, Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold also killed the best hope for understanding why they did what they did.

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SCHOOL shootings; CHILDREN & violence; KLEBOLD, Dylan; HARRIS, Eric; CHILDREN -- United States; UNITED States
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