Lost Journals

Columbine is a flower. Columbine is a place. Columbine is a high school that still exisits, kids still attend classes there. Columbine is not an event. I'm tired of the media comparing everything to Columbine.

If you want to talk about the shooting at Columbine, then do so. But it was a shooting, not a disease. It was one of the darker days in our country's recent history and not easily summed up in one word. I'm so tired of this phenomenon - complex events reduced to a single word: 9/11, Waco, Columbine. Show some respect.