Word: littleton
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...eleven teenagers who maintained the site are students at Field High School in a small town called Brimfield. According to an Associated Press report, their web site was "filled with images of dragons and castles and dark poetry," and it referred to the Littleton massacre explicitly, although hardly in positive terms: "I wonder how long it'll be before we're allowed to wear our trenchcoats anymore. You know those screwed up kids in Colorado were wearing them, so that means I will also kill someone, and so will all my friends." MORE...
Ironically, it is the survivors of the Columbine massacre, rather than the families of the dead, who may stand the best chance of collecting. The grimmest TV footage out of Littleton was of a badly injured boy dangling out of a window until he could be rescued by a SWAT team. Patrick Ireland, 17, was shot in the brain and is partially paralyzed on his right side. He is likely to have enormous medical bills for years. If victims like him were to seek redress in court, it would take a jury with a heart of stone to send them...
...alarm that sounded in Littleton should wake up all Americans to the special needs of our children. This nightmare is ours because of this hard truth: the toxic culture of guns and screen violence that kids have to navigate has been created by adults who are supposed to offer protection and guidance...
Last Sunday, as my husband and I grieved with the people of Littleton, a parent of one of the victims said to him, "You have got to tell me that these children did not die in vain. We've got to make changes. Promise me that you will." Our country needs to make this promise in every house, on every street, in every community. And then we need to keep...
WASHINGTON: Well, now we know the Littleton massacre was important: President Clinton's having a White House symposium about it. Educators, cops, Hollywood executives and gun-lobbyists alike, from Gloria Estefan to the CEO of Smith & Wesson, were all there Monday, and Clinton isn't pointing fingers at any of them. "We are not here to place blame, but to shoulder responsibility," he said in a brief statement before the gab-fest was closed to the media. He's got a better idea, a way to get to the head of the class on Littleton without upsetting anyone...