During his appearance he warned that the violence we had already seen in towns like Jonesboro, Arkansas and West Paducah, Kentucky would occur again. Fifteen days later, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered the corridors of Columbine High School and began what would become the worst school massacre in our history. I really do believe the answers are right in front of our face, but we refuse to see them, and we're not willing to do the hard work that it takes to make a change.
Violence is the final link in a chain that begins with disconnection.
The first link in that chain is also disconnection - a boy's disconnection from his feelings of sadness, loneliness, fear. But those feelings don't disappear. They return as anger, rage and violence. Sometimes a boy will direct that anger at himself. Sometimes at others.