Damn, kb beat me to the badge, but this is a hell of a read. I'm the same age as Kip, and I can't tell you how vivid the memory of this story and of Columbine is (plus a dude from my own class killed his sister and planned to kill more before coming to and giving himself up). They precipitated vast changes in the freedoms we were allowed during school hours, which basically changed from a minimum to a medium security prison overnight. Reactionary instead of trying to have any understanding of deeper meaning. The 90s were a decade when nothing meant anything, and that was a hard time to be in high school (not that there's ever a good time). However, I'm afraid that even with our consciousnesses of race and metal illness being raised much higher over the interceding two decades, that not much has really changed. We're still reactionaries.