Calif. In compiling the list, Brown became something of an expert on the stories behind the dates. Columbine could have been prevented. For Brown, the stories hit home as he read one account after another about sleepy suburban towns blown apart by school shootings. I ve lived in this county my whole life, he said. When I hear this stuff that happens in these little towns, it s shocking.
Little towns can have big secrets.
Some of those secrets, said Qadri when she took the floor, produce deadly consequences. Some kids can only handle so much of being yelled at, or being told things like they re fat, ugly or stupid, she said, listing one of several factors that can contribute to violent behavior. They hold in their anger, and then soon they can t hold it in any more. Then they use violence. Following Qadri, student Amy Domenghini focused on solutions and prevention.