“There were some really good-looking girls running with their hands over their heads. Did those kids try to have sex with any of those good-looking girls? They didn’t even do that? At least if you’re going to kill yourself and kill the kids, why wouldn’t you have some sex? If I was going to kill some…”— Howard Stern, huffpost.com
“The news station asked the student for information, to which the student replied that he had their station on and was trying to figure out what was happening himself.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is an axiom of journalism that disaster stories begin in confusion and grow clearer over time. Facts rush in, the fog lifts, an accurate picture solidifies. The public accepts this. But the final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”— Dave Cullen, amazon.com
“We remember Columbine as a pair of outcast Goths from the Trench Coat Mafia snapping and tearing through their high school hunting down jocks to settle a long-running feud. Almost none of that happened.”— Dave Cullen, amazon.com
“At the age of 13, I was raped for the first time and then shortly after, the blame was placed on me for a hit list and bomb threat that took place at my middle school right after Columbine. So, I went away into the system from the age of 13 to the age of 18, where I struggled with more self-injury a…”— Amy Bleuel, underthelabels.wordpress.com
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com