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Rage and Rampage: School Shootings and Crises of Masculinity

Douglas Kellner | Posted 04.24.2012

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Douglas Kellner

While the motivations for school shootings may vary, they have in common crises in masculinity in which young men use guns and violence to create ultra-masculine identities as part of a media spectacle.

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Taking Back Columbine on Film

Jeff Kass | Posted 04.17.2012

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Jeff Kass

As we approach the 13th anniversary, the Columbine story is being revised in legitimate and important ways. Samuel J. Granillo's film, "Columbine: Wounded Minds," "isn't just a message, it's a movement."

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Now Is the Time. Actually, It's Past Time, Speaker Boehner

Colin and Andrew Goddard | Posted 04.15.2012

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Colin and Andrew Goddard

If you think it's not "appropriate" to talk about gun violence during the week that marks both Virginia Tech and Columbine -- the worst shootings in our country's history -- then when would it be for you?

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April: A Month of Showers, Tears and Smiles

Tim Giago | Posted 04.08.2012

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Tim Giago

At that time April became the month of hope and dreams. But before Jolson's song of April, the month took some ominous turns.

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Can Lifetime Handle Columbine?

Jeff Kass | Posted 04.30.2012

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Jeff Kass

"Columbine killer Eric Harris wanted to haunt survivors from beyond the grave with flashbacks and drive them insane, he said in a video diary before t...

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Chardon and Columbine

Jeff Kass | Posted 04.29.2012

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Jeff Kass

While shootings have traditionally occurred in suburbs and small towns, they are seen as everyday Americana.

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Making Sense of School Shootings

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.29.2012

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John W. Whitehead

Our young people are members of a lost generation -- raised in a world where life has little to no value, the almighty dollar takes precedence and values are taught by primetime sitcoms and Saturday morning cartoons.

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Police: Hammer Was Probably Found At Columbine HS

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

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DENVER -- A 14-year-old girl charged with attacking two students with a hammer at Columbine High School this week probably found the hammer on the sub...

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Don't Vote 'Columbine'

Jeff Kass | Posted 04.10.2012

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Jeff Kass

Shots were heard round the world when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School before turnin...

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John Celock

Jerry Bergevin, New Hampshire Legislator, Links Evolution With Nazis And Columbine

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.02.2012

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A Republican state lawmaker in New Hampshire who introduced legislation to stop the teaching of evolution in schools has claimed that the theory of ev...

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Colorado Mall Bomber Pleads Guilty To 1 Count

AP | Posted 12.30.2011

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DENVER -- A man has acknowledged planting a homemade bomb at a Colorado shopping mall on the 12th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. ...

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Teen Arrested For Plotting Columbine-Like High School Shooting

Posted 01.18.2012

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A junior high student in Puyallup, Wash. was arrested Thursday for reportedly plotting to shoot up his school Columbine-style. The 14-year-old's p...

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Could Stricter Gun Laws Prevent School Shootings?

The Communicator, Community High School Newspaper | Kerry Fingerle | Posted 12.24.2011

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The act of mourning is indeed a process, and in itself a cycle. We have in the recent past experienced this with the tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizo...

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Secrets of Columbine

Jeff Kass | Posted 12.21.2011

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Jeff Kass

I will be speaking on October 23 at a Colorado Authors book festival in Denver. I'll talk about the first days covering Columbine, and what set me on the road to writing the definitive book on the shootings.

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Post-Columbine School Discipline Changes Move Forward In Colo.

AP | By IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.19.2011

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DENVER -- Post-Columbine school disciplinary policies that Colorado lawmakers say lead to mandatory expulsions for things like inadvertently having a ...

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Beyond the 9/11 Myth: Dispelling the Fog

James Block | Posted 11.03.2011

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James Block

It will always be nearly impossible to extract the real meaning and importance of 9/11 from its mythic dimensions because it was -- as it was i...

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The NRA: They Apologize for the School Shooting...You Know, That One...

Cliff Schecter | Posted 10.24.2011

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Cliff Schecter

This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Listen as the NRA calls someone, tells them Hillary Clinton, Cuba and perhaps Mars is coming to get their guns.

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ABC Will Cover Casey Anthony Without Its Checkbook

Shelley Ross | Posted 10.03.2011

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Shelley Ross

The high cost of paying for interviews has nothing to do with the amount of the check. One can only hope that CBS and NBC follow ABC News as they begin to show the world you can put the toothpaste back in the tube.

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Assault Charge For Throwing A Bean Bag Chair In School? One State Is Reconsidering

AP | By IVAN MORENO | Posted 09.27.2011

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DENVER -- Young students in Colorado schools can face ticketing or charges for scrawling doodles on a desk, accidentally hitting a teacher with a bean...

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Columbine and Norway Killings

Jeff Kass | Posted 09.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

Intersections between the Columbine and Norway killings are barely being touched upon so far, but at least one concerns the fiery issue of gun control.

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Norway Killer Lists Favorite Music, Books And Video Games

Posted 09.24.2011

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In the wake of last week's bombing and massacre in Oslo, Norway, its perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik has come under intense scrutiny. Breivik enume...

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The First First Responders

Jeff Kass | Posted 08.13.2011

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Jeff Kass

SB11-173, Interoperable Communications in Schools, is meant to promote communication between school staffers already on scene and first responders.

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America's Deadliest School Massacre Is the One You Never Heard Of

Lev Raphael | Posted 07.16.2011

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Lev Raphael

The toll was 44 killed, 58 wounded. The means were unprecedented. In the end, suicide bomber Andrew Kehoe was that American cliché: the kind of man you'd never expect to go criminally berserk.

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'Twilight' Star Tackles Terrible Tragic Shooting

Posted 07.13.2011

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In what is no doubt a just and understandable reaction, great tragedies are often met with concerned -- and often probing -- attention from the media ...

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Denver Police Investigating Fourth Grader's 'Columbine' Gun Threat

KMGH Denver | Posted 06.28.2011

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DENVER -- A fourth-grade boy is under investigation after classmates told parents he made a threat to bring a gun to school. Parents told 7NEWS the...

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