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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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Columbine students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who were identified by some classmates as outsiders and anti-social, killed themselves and 13 others at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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In Bowling for Columbine (a much more thought-provoking film than I had anticipated), Michael Moore makes the case that one of the main reasons for excessive gun violence isn't so much lack of gun control laws as it is a tendency for Americans to overestimate risk based on overreporting of violent crime in the media.
Moore is first and foremost a political propagandist, and Bowling for Columbine with its invidious and dishonest attempt to lay the blame for America's murder rate on legal gun-owners in America's suburbs is an exercise in ignorance, sophistry and obfuscation.
Drive-by shootings or incidents such as the Columbine massacre are not part of the landscape in Japan; no one is inveighing against either the availability of firearms or attempts to restrict them.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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In a summit on youth violence held in Denver following the Columbine High School shootings, high school students have a simple message: Parents should spend more time with their children and do a better job of instilling values.
I saw Bowling for Columbine the other day, though I missed the first 15 minutes because I can't be on time for anything.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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Bowling for Columbine confronts the possible causes of the problem instead of finding the juicy details that will sell copies of the local fish wrap or get top ratings in the Nielsen charts.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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It was reported that one of the student perpetrators in the Columbine High School shootings in April, 1998, Eric Harris, was taking the prescription drug Luvox which can cause mania.
Columbine shooting victim Mark Taylor, left, and Cory Baadsgaard, who took his high school English class hostage in Washington state in 2001, prepare to be filmed for a PBS documentary titled "The Drugging of Our Children" in a Littleton hotel room Thursday.
The idea of conducting this investigation began shortly after the Columbine shootings in 1999.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Two powerful lawmakers have vowed to support an attempt to revive legislation that would establish a panel to investigate the Columbine High School shootings.
The measure is similar to a plan that won approval in both Houses in 1999 but died in a conference committee after the shootings at Columbine High prompted lawmakers to table all gun bills that year.
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