Monday, November 12, 2007

Finland Shooting's Columbine Links

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The Finland school shooter of November 2007 exhibited several ties to Columbine and other recent school shooters. Hauntingly, the Finland s...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Cleveland's Coon: A Columbine Copycat

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The Cleveland school shooter Asa H. Coon was Caucasian. He was a "death Goth" Columbine copycat in a trenchcoat. You won't ...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Bomb Threat Copycats

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The Daily Pennsylvanian has published an article on September 5, 2007, written by Katie Karas on the wave of bomb threats that are sweeping...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Snow Closes Colleges: Why Not Shootings?

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Universities close down schools all the time. They do it on "snow days." The VA Tech Report is in and you should be upset. To sa...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

McDonald's & Luby's

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Called the "San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre," the mass shooting incident resulted in 21 deaths and 15 injuries at a McDonald...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Dark Days of May

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What has May shown us before, as far as shootings tied to specific dates? Is there a reflective copycat effect in store for this May? As op...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007

TV Violence Researcher Dies

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The New York Times published an obituary, "Leonard Eron, 87, Is Dead; Researcher on TV’s Tie to Violent Conduct" by Jeremy Pearce...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

New Scientist on Copycats

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The New Scientist magazine published on May 9, 2007, an article by Michael Bond entitled "Can media coverage of suicides inspire copyc...
Sunday, May 06, 2007

Rage Survivor Writes

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I never expected to hear from a school shooting survivor in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, but the following arrived late last week....
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Copycat Quotes

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"To look for clues rationally in such an irrational document is really a fool's game." - Loren Coleman, as quoted by the Assoc...
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Friday, May 04, 2007

Keene State

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It is almost three weeks and many people are seemingly moving on from the VA Tech tragedy. Of course, it is not entirely over, in terms of t...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

APA: Stop Airing Graphic Cho Materials

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Of course, my question to the American Psychiatric Association is...what took you so long? APA Urges Media To Stop Airing Graphic Cho Materi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Student Hostage Nearly Immolated

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Did you know there was a violent school incident on April 24, 2007, only a week and a day after what happened in Blacksburg, Virginia? An in...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Cho's Duck: Target Practice?

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Cho Seung-Hui, as The Smoking Gun discovered, used the email address Blazers5505@hotmail.com and bought his ammunition clips on eBay. We kno...
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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Copycat of Copycats

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It is easy to be unhappy with the headlines in the New York Post . Today is no different - "Sick Homages From A Student of Psychos...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Copycats In Dangerous Times

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For those that have my book, The Copycat Effect, you will note that it is dedicated to my maternal grandmother, Nellie Gray, who was killed ...
Friday, April 20, 2007

420

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What does "420" mean? April 20th? Or something deeper? High school student Jeff Weise, an Ojibwa, killed ten, including himself,...

Columbine

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Columbine School Shooting, April 20, 1999 There were 15 people killed in the Columbine High School massacre. Remember all the names of tho...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Columbine & VA Tech

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NBC News got a package in the mail. I'm sure you've heard the news. Columbine is now confirmed to be part of the mental process of...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

VA Tech Shooting

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Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing has a good overview of the Virginia Tech shooting today. It appears 33 dead are confirmed, including the shoote...
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