The San Diego district attorney says Andy Williams, the suspect in last month's killings at a Santee, Calif. high school , was obsessed with Columbine. Williams is not alone. The massacre has been blamed in part for at least four subsequent school attacks and three alleged plots aimed at schools. At least 60 other threats mentioning Columbine have been reported worldwide. Most researchers stop short of saying the Columbine shootings and the public fascination with Harris and Klebold directly inspire more crime.
Recent events suggest they succeeded in that.
It's too much for the father of slain Columbine student Danny Rohrbaugh. Another page quotes the sympathetic lyrics of a new song by rapper Eminem. Psychologist Robert Butterworth finds it upsetting. Getting on the Internet, someone in Iowa, Massachusetts and New York, all of a sudden bond together. They become a lot more powerful, and it can become a lot more frightening.