Bowling for Columbine
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maybe they would've
have done it, but...

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- I guess we'll never know
why they did it,

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but one thing adults
should never forget:

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It still sucks
being a teenager.

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And it really sucks
going to school.

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- What's your view
on high school?

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- Uh, I love it.
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Columbine Student Video
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Uh, I learn, I get picked on
by bastards who hate me,

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and the principal's a dick.
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- All right.
What causes school violence?

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- Uh... him.
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- Him?
- Yeah.

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- Yes, and after Columbine,
it really sucked

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being a student in America.
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[ TV news ]:
Since last spring's shooting,

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at Columbine High,
schools nationwide

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have extended
zero-tolerance policies,

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suspending and expelling
students for all kinds

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of behaviour considered unruly,
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or warning signs
of violence to come.

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This second-grader in Illinois
was suspended for 10 days

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for bringing a nail clipper
to class

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"That's a weapon,"
his school said.

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- An elementary school
suspended a first-grader

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for pointing a chicken strip
at a teacher in the cafeteria.

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The eight-year-old
was fooling around with a friend

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at lunch last week when he
pointed a breaded-chicken finger

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at a teacher and then said:
"Pow pow.

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- He pointed a folded piece
of paper shaped like a gun,

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and told his classmates
he was going to kill them

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during a game
of cops and robbers.

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- If this isn't a warning sign,
then what is it?

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- This Virginia high-school
student spent a month

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out of classes,
originally sent home

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for dying his hair blue.
- A high-school honour student

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from Michigan could be expelled
later today

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in a school-board hearing.
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Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Hicks
wore a Scottish

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bagpiper's outfit to his junior
prom that included

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a plaid kilt, a feathered hat
and a traditional knife

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known as a "skein dhu."
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- This T-shirt
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landed a high-school student
in court.

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She wanted to start
an anarchy club.

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- The little time-bombs
that are out there ticking,

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waiting to go off. And there are
many of them in every community.

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- Students in at least seven
different states

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have been suspended or arrested
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for talking about or planning
plots of their own.


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