“Like blaming evil, the copycat rationale is so empty that it doesn't even qualify as a convenient explanation… dismissing this rash of murder and sympathy- across the country, across a wide variety of students- as simply copycat shooters assumes that kids operate at about the same intelligence level as sardines.”

—  Mark Ames

Part V: More Rage. More Rage., page 178.
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)

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