The World Socialist Web Site has created this forum to encourage contributions from its readers on the Columbine High School shooting, its causes, and its relation to the political and social environment in the US. Included here are also letters pertaining to earlier shootings at US schools. For the information of our readers, the WSWS will publish longer submissions of political and intellectual merit even if they do not fully correspond to the views of the WSWS Editorial Board. Such submissions should be sent to comment@wsws.org. The WSWS will also publish shorter "Letters to the editor" in this space. Such letters should be sent to editor@wsws.org

Commentary and opinion

The social tensions underlying the Colorado school shooting
[28 April 1999]

Letters to the editor

The Columbine High School massacre: Letters from readers
[30 April 1999]

Regarding "Columbine High School Massacre:
American Pastoral...American Berserk"
[28 April 1999]

Letters from readers: "The Littleton school killers were bred in this society"
[24 April 1999]

Reaction to school shooting in Littleton, Colorado
[23 April 1999]

A letter on the Nathaniel Abraham case
[25 July 1998]

An exchange over the Nathaniel Abraham case
[18 July 1998]

Readers comment on US school shootings
[5 June 1998]

Reader responds to article on Oregon shootings
[27 May 1998]

Readers consider the causes of the Jonesboro tragedy
[15 April 1998]

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