jeff kass

Author of Columbine: A True Crime Story. The most definitive book on Columbine and other school shootings. [email protected]

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If you want to look beyond the gun control debate, consider that the Secret Service found that in incidents such as #Columbine 75% of attackers showed warning signs so if authorities can be alerted ahead of an incident, they can maybe stop it.

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Eric Harris is seen as the #Columbine leader and Dylan Klebold the follower. The bottom line is, both of them planned that day out, both fired their guns, and both are equally to blame.

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Accounts of #Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold being bullied include sometimes friend Brooks Brown: who wrote in his book:“They would knock our food trays onto the floor, trip us, or throw food as we were walking by.”

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Many of the #Columbine killings and injuries were random – in other words, someone was in the wrong place at the wrong time when the bullets started flying.
But the killers, in their writings and on the day of the shootings, expressed a disdain for jocks and preppies

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The #Columbine killers were not members of the clique of outcasts, the Trench Coat Mafia,
but were inspired by them to lash out at what they saw as an oppressive, unfair system symbolized by the school.

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About to observe the upcoming 25th anniversary of the #Columbine shootings: 5 Myths

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@ricksallinger @CBSNewsColorado Always great working with you

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@writerkev @JesseAPaul And as I recall that was not to necessarily receive any records but just to have the sheriff review them to see if they would release anything.

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@CoreyHutchins Good story/good follow up.

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@BillOckham1 Good to hear and good to hear from you. As an editor once told me: “It has the added advantage of being true.”

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We remember the #Columbine massacre that rocked #Colorado and our world on April 20, 1999 on the Craig Silverman podcast https://t.co/mfBsVlQpbJ

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@adam_tooze @mollyhfischer @intelligencer That’s how I got here - but not before a recommendation from Sean Monahan.

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@chasbrennan @nytimes Albeit not nice circumstances

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@chasbrennan @nytimes Nice to see your byline

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Stopping mass shootings means catching the warning signs so on a related note an important but sad story on Colorado’s mental health safety net https://t.co/Kd24p5aTtr

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Great #columbine podcast intro: Jeff Kass is a former journalist at the Rocky Mountain News and other outlets, wrote the definitive book about the Columbine tragedy, and is now a private investigator and head of Kass Research Group. https://t.co/9u1XaMesTl

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"He wanted to tell people's stories": Jim Sheeler, Pulitzer-winning Rocky Mountain News reporter, dies at 53 https://t.co/IMukvcd5AE via @denverpost A great writer and former colleague of mine at the RMN. We should all follow his approach to journalism.

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Just rewatched the classic #brucelee Enter the Dragon. Excellent. And on #MemorialDay two of the heroes are Vietnam Vets: Roper and Williams.

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@airforceneil3 Thanks. Much appreciated.

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My #columbine #reddit AMA is up. https://t.co/vZ4ufCBpMI