Social Breakdown: Violence in the US
"Eyes wide shut": The reopening of Columbine High School
By David Walsh, August 19, 1999
The ceremony marking the reopening of Columbine High School in Littteton, Colorado, the scene of a horrifying mass shooting and double suicide April 20, was a travesty. Revealed in the event was the i...
Fascist gunman attacks Jewish center in Los Angeles
By Barry Grey, August 12, 1999
The latest shooting rampage in the US occurred Tuesday when a man walked into the North Valley Jewish Community Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Granada Hills and fired seventy rounds at staff memb...
The Atlanta massacre: what it says about America
By Barry Grey, July 31, 1999
The US has witnessed yet another shooting rampage, this time in the exclusive environs of the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. By now the basic facts are well known: Mark Barton, a 44-year-old c...
Social breakdown and the American police mentality
Fourteen-year-olds charged as adults in school shooting plot
By David Walsh, June 24, 1999
A judge ordered two 14-year-old boys to stand trial as adults Tuesday in Port Huron, Michigan, 60 miles northeast of Detroit, on charges that could bring them automatic sentences of life in prison wit...
Empty moralizing and tougher juvenile laws follow latest school shooting
By Jerry White, May 24, 1999
This time the school was in suburban Atlanta; the assailant, a 15-year-old sophomore reportedly distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend. Thursday morning he calmly walked into Heritage High Sc...
Michigan students charged with attempted murder in alleged school massacre plot
By Jerry White, May 20, 1999
Four students—ages 12 through 14—are being held in jail after being charged with conspiracy to commit murder at their middle school in Port Huron, Michigan, about 60 miles northeast of Det...
